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openwash

verb

Etymology

Blend of open + greenwash.

  1. derived from *wed-✻
  2. inherited from *waskaną,*watskaną✻
  3. inherited from *waskan✻
  4. inherited from wascan
  5. inherited from wasshen,waschen,weschen
  6. compounded as whitewash — “white + wash”
  7. compounded as greenwash — “green + whitewash”
  8. compounded as openwash — “open + greenwash”

Definitions

  1. To market something as open (without proprietary licensing) when it does not meet all the…

    To market something as open (without proprietary licensing) when it does not meet all the criteria of openness.

    • Over all, one cannot reduce the skills needed for collaboration to skills in joint publishing. On the other hand, the collaborative skills needed should still be knowledge skills, so the aim is to not 'openwash' the knowledge processes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for openwash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA