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- The founder of free software movement, Richard Stallman, sometimes uses the term "user-subjugating software" to describe proprietary software.
- Eben Moglen sometimes talks of "unfree software".
- The term "non-free" is often used by Debian developers to describe any software whose license does not comply with Debian Free Software Guidelines, and they use "proprietary software" specifically for non-free software that provides no source code.
- The Open Source Initiative uses the terms "proprietary software" and "closed source software" interchangeably.
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