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openwashed

openwashed is the simple past and past participle of openwash.

Meaning of openwash

Verb

openwash (third-person singular simple present openwashes, present participle openwashing, simple past and past participle openwashed)

  1. 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.2015, Kristian Møller, Moltke Martiny, “Embodying Investigations of Cerebral Palsy: A Case of Open Cognitive Science”, in Kristian Moltke Martiny, Allan Alfred Birkegaard Hansted, editors, Open Mind...

Questions about openwashed

What is openwashed the simple past and past participle of?
Openwashed is the simple past and past participle of openwash.

Words near openwashed in the dictionary

  1. opensides
  2. opensource
  3. openture
  4. OpenType
  5. openwash
  6. openwashed
  7. openwashes
  8. openwashing
  9. openwork
  10. openwork stocking
  11. openwork stockings

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