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unusual facts about Proprietary software



Agrep

agrep (approximate grep) is a proprietary approximate string matching program, developed by Udi Manber and Sun Wu between 1988 and 1991, for use with the Unix operating system.

ARC Macro Language

The ARC Macro Language (AML) is a proprietary high-level algorithmic language for generating applications in ArcInfo.

Core fonts for the Web

It included the proprietary fonts Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and Webdings, all of them in TrueType font format packaged in executable files (".exe") for Microsoft Windows and in BinHexed Stuff-It archives (".sit.hqx") for Macintosh.

FIT Issue Management

It features a proprietary flat file database, but can also connect to any JDBC compliant database such as Oracle, MySQL and MS-SQL with the optional database module.

Go!Zilla

Zilla (not to be confused with Godzilla, a fictional Japanese monster) is a proprietary download manager originally developed by Aaron Ostler in 1995, and later purchased by Radiate in 1999, for use on Windows.

Matrox Simple Interface

Matrox Simple Interface (in short MSI) is the name of a proprietary DOS and Windows 95 application programming interface for Matrox Mystique graphics cards made by Matrox.

Orbitz

Both JBoss and Oracle WebLogic Server are used as application servers within their environment along with various other proprietary and open source software.

Sleepycat Software

Sleepycat distributed Berkeley DB under a proprietary software license that included standard commercial features, and simultaneously under the newly created Sleepycat License, which allows open source use and distribution of Berkeley DB with a copyleft redistribution condition similar to the GNU General Public License.

Xvid

In contrast with the DivX codec, which is proprietary software developed by DivX, Inc., Xvid is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Zert

The Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT), a group of volunteer security researchers who produced emergency patches for zero day attack vulnerabilities in proprietary software.


see also

Continuous integration

Microsoft Team Foundation Server: proprietary software development collaboration platform with continuous integration server and source code repository.

Havoc Pennington

From 2008 until June 2011, he worked on a consumer product for the startup company Litl (hardware, and proprietary software and services).

Ideum

These multitouch displays support Ideum's proprietary software development framework, GestureWorks, the Open Exhibits SDK which allows for the development of multitouch multiuser applications in ActionScript, and GestureWorks Gameplay, their Windows 8 utility for making PC games touch-enabled.

The Right to Read

It is notable for being written before the use of Digital Rights Management technology was widespread (although DVD video discs which used DRM had appeared the year before, and various proprietary software since the 1970s had made use of some form of copy protection), and for predicting later hardware-based attempts to restrict how users could use content, such as Trusted Computing.

Vendor Neutral Archive

Whilst such systems all have standard interfaces (DICOM and IHE) for ingestion and distribution of images over the network and on physical media (like CD), typically the workflow and optimal performance for display are achieved using proprietary software and protocols.