#openwashing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #openwashing, aggregated by home.social.
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> It's not #OpenSource nzt #OpenWashing if you can't get #ReproduceableBuilds and #SourceCode Access by just pulling a #git and having public access to the #code.
Looking at you Apple. However, their tricks don't stop me from building an XNU version from 15 years ago on modern software...
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@hajoda diese "offenen Modelle" sind leider nur ein Fall von #OpenWashing - die Gewichte mögen offen sein, das Modell kostenfrei verfügbar - das war's dann aber auch.
Im Gegensatz zu richtiger #OpenSource-Software fehlt da aber der Rest der Zutaten um das Ergebnis zu reproduzieren - ganz zu schweigen von den Unmengen an Trainingsdaten, welche in aller Regel ohne jegliche Berücksichtigung derer Urheberrechte/Lizenzbedingungen zusammengeklaut werden.
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There's a lot of talk about 'open source AI' models is #openwashing anyway. To be truly 'open source' (in the definition of the term), much more needs to be made available.
Plus, too many of them (most?) don't even have an actual open source licence attached to them. Often only a 'source available' licence (which is not the same), and is considered openwashing as well.
And this is not even addressing the obvious ethical elephant dung in the room ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_artificial_intelligence
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#openwashing ou la subversion de l’open dans la publication scientifique [Parlons Science Ouverte #14]
https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/2026/07/lopenwashing-ou-la-subversion-de-l-open-dans-la-publication-scientifique/ -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fsfe/116844707014226540
If you speak German, here a podcast recommendation for the @engkiosk with my co-worker @johas about #Openwashing, digitale Souveräntität, etc.
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RE: https://podcasts.social/@engkiosk/116843186149034181
Was ist #Openwashing und warum unterminiert es #PublicCode und digitale Souveränität?
Im Podcast @engkiosk zeigt @johas anhand von Beispielen, welche Tricks Openwasher anwenden und wie wir alle #FreieSoftware vor solchen unangenehmen Praktiken schützen können.
Hier gibt es die ganze Folge: https://engineeringkiosk.dev/episodes/274
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Engineering Kiosk Podcast Folge #274 Openwashing: Wenn Open Source nicht wirklich offen ist - mit @engkiosk und @johas
MP3: https://audio1.redcircle.com/episodes/ad846d45-f047-4bb9-b9a0-6f49f3d26a82/stream.mp3
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#WSocial: "We want to promote European digital sovereignty. We're made in Europe, for the world!"
@EUCommission: "A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces. Today, we’re expanding our presence to W."
W Social: "You need to verify your identity. Please download our #WIdentity app from Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store"
No further comment necessary.
Check for yourselves (04:30): https://inv.nadeko.net/Vcq4MiabpEQ
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What's up with FUTO? // Drew Devault
｢ they make a point of criticizing the Open Source Initiative for banning Eric S. Raymond (aka ESR) from their mailing lists, citing right-wing reactionary conspiracy theorist Bryan Lunduke’s blog post on the incident ｣
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In the mean time, the FSF made a clear statement on the Onlyoffice – EuroOffice case: https://u.fsf.org/4b2
Indeed, one can not add arbitrary terms to the (A)GPL and claim that ones software is under that license. If an added term represents a "further restriction", anyone is allowed to remove that restriction.
(A)GPL licenses are made to preserve software freedom, not for actors to use them for open washing, claiming to be open yource while trying to take a way freedoms from users at the same time.
#AGPL #GPL #opensource #openwashing #eurooffice #onlyoffice #softwarefreedom
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost (about W Social)
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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Hablemos un poco del «Open Washing», la práctica de publicar tecnología, software o IA como si fuera de código abierto o software libre cuando realmente no lo es. Redis, Terraform,
ElasticSearch o Android son algunos ejemplos de esto. Sabrán disculpar la calidad del audio, se me rompió el 🎙️ cuando empecé a grabar este episodio.#podcast #opensource #softwarelibre #openwashing #codigoabierto
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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
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W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
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Programme die sich als Opensource verkaufen dessen backend aber ein blob ist oder im Internet läuft, auch so eine sache. #Foss #openwashing
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It didn't take very long...
Special thanks to @mactunag for giving me a heads-up about Bluesky's message on X from November 2025
Sources:
1: https://x.com/bluesky/status/19915137315416477332: https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3mi5pwoncqs2g
What I find particularly egregious is that Bluesky already had a custom feed builder: #Graze was an independent project that had proved to be super popular. They had raised a million dollars just last year! They even sponsored the AtmosphereConf last week. Then Bluesky PBC steamrolled over them and announced their own project - Attie - powered by AI... at AtmosphereConf (the event where Graze was listed as a major sponsor - you can't make this up).
A developer for ATProto was horrified by this, writing:
"Why would anyone fund an Atmosphere project if Bluesky, with $100 million in the bank, might ship a competing feature at any moment? Why would a founder bet their career on this ecosystem? The presentation didn't just hurt Graze. It made the entire ecosystem look unfundable."
🔗: https://trezy.com/blog/the-marshmallow-test
I am getting A LOT of heat for pointing out shady behaviors by Bluesky PBC. Even from Fedi friends. But I think it's important to be wide-eyed and consider all this mounting evidence of problematic behavior.
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Gerade diskutiert @spinfocl die verschiedenen Aspekte von Offenheit bei LLMs: Gewichte, Inferencing Code, Trainingsdaten, Trainingslogik.
https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
https://isitopen.ai/
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.15802
https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3659005 -
neue Folge im #Podcast "The Future is Open Science": "Open Washing: Randphänomen oder gängige Praxis?" https://podcast.zbw.eu/fos/2026/02/19/fos-57-open-washing/
#OpenWashing #OpenScience -
This product looks really cool. Too bad it's *not open source*. They claim they will distribute the design files under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, NC stands for noncommercial, so it's not open source. The design is also patented, which (AFAIK) means it's illegal to make this printer without their permission.
I would have much preferred CERN-OHL-S, which explicitly gives you patent rights.
