Maybe they just forgot a dash?
"Proprietary - property of Cognos" makes more sense.
Bruno


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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 5:10 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Terminology

(WAY off topic)  I have a question that has been on my mind for a long
time, and I can't seem to find any consensus on the answer.  When
reading about commercial software, I keep running into the phrase
"Proprietary property."  
I have always felt the phrase is redundant, and I used to laugh at all
the tapes I would get from Cognos with a label declaring that the
contents were "proprietary property of Cognos."  Now that I have
encountered the phrase in so many places, I have begun to wonder if my
assumption is based on some misunderstanding of the words.

Would anyone care to weigh in on this admittedly trivial question?

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