In a message dated 4/26/06 3:15:50 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
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> (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?

Unfortunately, anything that I might perhaps say would only likely be 
probably deleteriously harmful to your cognitive understanding of the informative 
meaning of the phrase.

Wirt Atmar

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