Got this pamphlet for a 3d printer and they’re boasting “proprietary software!” on the flyer like it’s a pro and not a con
Proprietary software! (we literally depend on 923 open source projects and had an intern cook us the software in 2 weeks, we also didn’t pay him anything)
I don’t think that it’s as common today, and it’s definitely not common in the open-source-oriented software world that I tend to inhabit, but I do remember seeing the phrase “proprietary technology” used in a positive sense on various products in the past. Maybe 1990s or so. The idea is, I suppose, that if the technology is proprietary, this is the only product where you can get it, and the implication is that it’s better.
i still see it depressingly often, and people just eat that shit up
the public has been taught that “proprietary” means “super special secret sauce developed by us at great expense to be THE BEST”
Proprietary “can” mean better support. But that’s asterisk heavy. Often that comes down to commercial hardware putting up road blocks to competitors. Or the open source solution being the product of a single developer in their spare time.
Not really. The software being proprietary turns support into a monopoly.
The support can still be better, but it will be despite the software being proprietary, not because of it.
(And by the way, single developers on their spare time create proprietary software too.)
