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Re: Proprietary Software term
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Urs Liska |
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Re: Proprietary Software term |
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Sat, 18 Aug 2018 13:37:58 +0200 |
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Am 18. August 2018 13:08:19 MESZ schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm pulling my hair because I don't manage to find a certain term to
>> use in an abstract.
>>
>> We've talked about the issue over and over again, but how do we call
>> it when using proprietary software prevents us from changing the
>tools
>> to work with our data/documents? (Well, actually the same effect that
>> prevents us to edit LilyPond scores with other programs, although
>> that's not for license but only for practical reasons).
>
>It's not for "license reasons" with proprietary software either since
>reading the same file format with a program written from scratch would
>be perfectly fine. Patents may intervene in strange cases from
>providing such a program, but copyright generally does.
>
Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I meant is that CodaMusic's policy
to use binary non-released (for some time even encrypted) file formats strongly
discouraged anyone to make a program use these files. In LilyPond's case it's
"only" the sheer size of the task.
>At any rate, I'd use the term "lock-in" for tool-specific formats,
>usually in the form of "vendor lock-in".
Yes, that's exactly it.
Urs
>
>There is also the expression "walled garden" but it's more used for
>things like app stores.
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