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- adjective Whose constituent makeup, or
source code , is not made publicly available.
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Examples
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‘Open-source’ textbooks would be just as able to synthesize and publish that knowledge as ‘closed-source’ ones.
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I believe VMWare, qemu and the closed-source version of virtualbox all provide USB support.
Windows 7 RC Includes “Windows XP Mode” | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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‘Open-source’ textbooks would be just as able to synthesize and publish that knowledge as ‘closed-source’ ones.
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The protocols on all of these systems are closed-source the last I remember (2000 was the last time I touched a PLC).
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Companies that want to use Ghostscript in closed-source proprietary software projects can avoid the copyleft requirement by purchasing a commercial license from Artifex.
Voting Machine Company Diebold Faces Lawsuit Over Software Use 2010
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(Voters living in the District will continue to use closed-source, proprietary hardware, although the next batch of machines [PDF] will generate a paper record, visible to the voter, confirming that that the machine registered the ballot accurately.)
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Potential clues for meeting the challenge of competing in a world without secrets might be found in the debate between open - and closed-source models for software distribution, or other experiments with open innovation, such as Eli Lilly's "e research" subsidiary that shares information with a network of thousands of independent researchers to help solve some of their toughest problems.
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Likewise, the future of the social web will not be built on proprietary, closed-source protocols and standards.
Facebook, the USSR, communism, and train tracks | FactoryCity 2008
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Companies that want to use Ghostscript in closed-source proprietary software projects can avoid the copyleft requirement by purchasing a commercial license from Artifex.
Voting Machine Company Diebold Faces Lawsuit Over Software Use 2010
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Potential clues for meeting the challenge of competing in a world without secrets might be found in the debate between open - and closed-source models for software distribution, or other experiments with open innovation, such as Eli Lilly's "e research" subsidiary that shares information with a network of thousands of independent researchers to help solve some of their toughest problems.
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