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Re: Kioslave hell
by Gato on Sunday 29/Oct/2006, @16:50

> They are not proprietary, they're well documented and
> free to use (or ignored).

There are at least two ways of speaking about proprietary. In one way you're right. But there's the other way: a method of software interaction can be called proprietary when it's free and open, but it's not an agreed upon standard and it requires special efforts from the part of other people in order to work.

This means that even if you give other people the tools to unbreak the compatibility that you have just broken, your URL language is still proprietary until it becomes an agreed upon standard.

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