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Proprietary Public Finance: On Its Emergence And Evolution Out Of Anarchy

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Proprietary rule, whereby the state is owned by a ruler who maximizes tax revenues minus the costs of governing, is a useful ideal type that describes many of the states that have ever existed....

Provided by: Ifo Institute for Economic Research

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Managing Proprietary And Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View

June 26, 2007 12:00am PDT

In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more intermediaries, that encompasses infrastructure and rules required by users to transact with each other. A...

Provided by: President and Fellows of Harvard College

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Proprietary Vs. Open Two- Sided Platforms And Social Efficiency

March 14, 2006 12:00am PST

This paper identifies a fundamental economic welfare tradeoff between two-sided open platforms and two-sided proprietary (closed) platforms connecting consumers and producers. Proprietary...

Provided by: Harvard Business School

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Proprietary Vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms And Social Efficiency

March 14, 2006 12:00am PST

This paper identifies a fundamental economic welfare tradeoff between two-sided open platforms and two-sided proprietary (closed) platforms connecting consumers and producers. Proprietary...

Provided by: President and Fellows of Harvard College

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Time to upgrade your proprietary desktop? Here are 10 great reasons to migrate to Ubuntu instead

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

The latest release of the world's most popular proprietary desktop operating system (OS) has been a big hit in the press. It's faster, easier to use and prettier to look at than its predecessor....

Provided by: Canonical Ltd

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Commercial Open Source Vs Proprietary Business Intelligence (BI)

December 29, 2008 12:00am PST

Commercial Open Source Business Intelligence (COSBI) is the new tool for Business Intelligence (BI). When compared to proprietary BI, COSBI has some disadvantages. So what are the differences...

Provided by: ELegant MicroWeb

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Opposites Attract: How Can the Flexibility of Open Source and the Assurance of Proprietary Software Coexist?

March 1, 2010 12:00am PST

The time of full-throttle competition between Free Open-Source Software (FOSS) and Proprietary Software (PS) is now in the past. The interaction between these paradigms has changed course into a...

Provided by: Bitrix

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Open Source Vs. Closed Source (Proprietary) Software

July 10, 2009 12:00am PDT

The aim of this paper is to provide a greater understanding of the differences between open source and closed source (proprietary) software, and the advantages and disadvantages of each to enable...

Provided by: bwired

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Industry Equilibrium With Open Source And Proprietary Firms

June 24, 2009 12:00am PDT

The authors present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: participation in OS arises as the...

Provided by: Harvard Business School

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Cisco 2691 Modular Access Router FIPS 140-2 Non-Proprietary Security Policy

February 9, 2009 12:00am PST

This is the non-proprietary Cryptographic Module Security Policy for the Cisco 2691 router. This security policy describes how the Cisco 2691 router meets the security requirements of FIPS 140-2,...

Provided by: Cisco Systems

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Orphal: API Design Challenges for Open Router Platforms on Proprietary Hardware

September 21, 2008 12:00am PDT

Most switch vendors have launched "open" platform designs for routers and switches, allowing code from customers or third-party vendors to run on their proprietary hardware. An open platform needs...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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Advantages of Amanda Over Proprietary Backup Software

August 27, 2008 12:00am PDT

This white paper discusses how Amanda compares to proprietary backup software. It will help people understand some key Amanda advantages, and will help them evaluate Amanda for protecting their...

Provided by: Zmanda

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The Making Of User-Interface Designer A Proprietary DSM Tool

October 5, 2007 12:00am PDT

This paper relates the construction of UI Designer, a proprietary tool that enables up to 5-fold productivity enhancements by synthesizing finished software products out of domain-specific models....

Provided by: MATSUSHITA

Software

ACR 80 USB Smart Card Reader (Proprietary Mode) (Windows)

October 2, 2002 12:00am PDT

ACR 80 USB Smart Card Reader (Proprietary Mode): The ACR80 is a secure smart card terminal featuring a 4 by 20 line character dot-matrix LCD display as well as providing up to 122 x 32 pixel...

Provided by: ACS

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SolutionBase: Setting up a pop server with SuSE Linux and Webmin

July 9, 2007 8:00am PDT

Many companies prefer to host their own mail servers. They’re cost-effective, easy to maintain, and easy to control. But many companies hesitate when they see the cost of hosting with proprietary...

Blog Posts

DIY: LibreCAD offers basic CAD tools for free

January 27, 2012 8:39am PST

See why Jack Wallen says the free LibreCAD application is the perfect middle ground between a standard drawing tool and a proprietary CAD system.

Articles

Get the skinny on proprietary VoIP protocols

October 27, 2006 7:00am PDT

You've heard of Skype, Cisco, and Asterisk and their VoIP products. Now, get the scoop on their proprietary VoIP protocols and how they interact with other, non-proprietary and open-source protocols.

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Open source needed to save democracy

January 17, 2012 4:53pm PST

Open source software developers face greater risks today than they ever have, to the point where the constraints inherent in proprietary software now represent a risk to democracy.

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Blog Posts

Restriping disk arrays with X-RAID2

November 28, 2011 11:57am PST

Like it or not, many storage products offer a proprietary RAID implementation. In this post, Rickatron explains the ReadyNAS X-RAID2 technology.

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DIY: Try FreeCAD, a cross-platform CAD solution

November 1, 2011 1:20pm PDT

Can't swing the high cost of a proprietary CAD solution? Then check out FreeCAD. Here's how to install and use the cross-platform tool.

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