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proprietary software 

Proprietary software is software that you are not free to use, copy, modify, and study as you like. It's a form of abuse of users, which sucks and makes people depressed; it gives suits power over creatives.

proprietarded

The seemingly pointless use of proprietary hardware to achieve the same purpose as other more common or open-standard solutions.
The Apple Display Connector was a proprietarded way for Apple to make the G4 Cube not have so many cables going from the computer to the display and keyboard. It combined USB, power and video into one cable.
proprietarded by existenzkampf December 17, 2008

prophetry 

1. foretelling the future whilst impersonating a genuine prophet
2. surprisingly clever ability to impersonate a prophet and predict events
An evident sign of a prophet impersonator is his nonstop prophetry.
prophetry by timlight July 20, 2009

proprietary software 

Software that is not free software or semi-free software (the same thing as free software except that it can only be used for non-profit things).
Windows is an example of proprietary software.

proprietary software 

Something said to be evil, yet nobody knows why.
Software developed by Microsoft is proprietary software, so it's evil.

proprietariest 

Someone who swears by proprietary software, ignoring and often ridiculing open source equivalents that may infact be superior.
person: John's obsessed with Windows Vista!
person2: what a proprietariest.
proprietariest by Blank__ February 24, 2009