Thread Subject: Re: "closed software"

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From: Randy Marsden
Date: Tue, Dec 19 2006 4:50 PM


My iPod description given in emails yesterday is one such example.

-Randy
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> From: "Jim Tobias" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Reply-To: TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee
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> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:55:58 -0500
> To: "'TEITAC self contained/closed products subcommittee'"
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> Subject: [teitac-websoftware] "closed software"
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> In the discussion of closed products, we seem to be converging on the
> opinion that "closed" is a characteristic, not a category. In this context,
> software has been mentioned as potentially closed. Can someone please give
> me an example, or a further explanation, of what closed software might be?
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> Jim Tobias
> Inclusive Technologies
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