As has been said, if the software is utterly hardware-specific firmware, such as the software that runs inside a hard drive that handles bad blocks and head movement and so on, he's OK with it being proprietary. A phone which somehow had software of that sort (to run an integrated answering machine?) would presumably be OK with him as well.
As has been said, if the software is utterly hardware-specific firmware, such as the software that runs inside a hard drive that handles bad blocks and head movement and so on, he's OK with it being proprietary. A phone which somehow had software of that sort (to run an integrated answering machine?) would presumably be OK with him as well.