FC: Here's another. How about a word for when a company guards its products to the detriment of the company? Like Apple not licensing its software back in the '80s, or, say, Google stamping out certain uses of its trademark?
McFedries: Such products are traditionally described as proprietary, but when maintaining this status works against the company, then I guess we could describe them as "antiprietary."
FC: You quote Bob Dylan in your book. "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and does what he wants to do." Does that describe you?
McFedries: You better believe it. I had to pinch myself a lot of times when I was working on the book because this is what I was doing all day--working on words, writing about words, and thinking about words. I couldn't imagine doing anything better than that.
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