#openwashing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #openwashing, aggregated by home.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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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 is 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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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” → actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, with the same #dotcons logic. PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). What this tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s #closedweb in a mask, ignoring existing commons is an easy to see the red flag. Why is this a mess? […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” → actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, with the same #dotcons logic. PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). What this tech mess illustrates is if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s #closedweb in a mask, ignoring existing commons is an easy to see the red flag. Why is this a mess? […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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@stargirl has simplified the Open Community License (OCL) from Prusa
➡️ https://github.com/theacodes/socl#3dprinting #prusa #ocl #socl #OpenSource #copyright #openwashing #opensourcewashing
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@_m/115736557792709233
TIL: Der #OpenDesk, eine Distribution und Anpassung diverser "Open Source" Projekte, leidet auch unter dem #OpenWashing des #OpenCore Geschäftsmodells
Es gibt eine "Enterprise Edition" unter proprietärer Lizenz. 🤡
Die bündelt dann vor allem die jeweiligen Enterprise-Lizenzen der einzelnen proprietären Bestandteile. Ob das noch #PublicMoneyPublicCode ist, halte ich dennoch für diskussionswürdig.Die Zendis GmbH ist dabei übrigens 100%ige Tochter des Innenministeriums.
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[Veille] 1 préprint @hal-science.bsky.social intriguant 🧐 !"G. Silhol, H. Dillaerts, Ch.Boukacem-Zeghmouri. Légitimations et subversions de l'Open : pour une analyse de l'openwashing dans la publication scientifique. 2025" https://hal.science/hal-05363533v1
#openscience #openaccess #openwashing #ExperimentalPublishing -
Update: turns out that there's one of those pesky non-commercial clauses on this project that, unfortunately, turns this whole project into #openwashing (unless the clause is time-limited or there's a stretch goal to make it properly #copyleft ). #Inkjet
RE: hub.azkware.net/objects/6e2ecb… -
A new #Trump executive order defines a "gold standard" for federally-funded science.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/Three points for now, and more later.
1. Most of the standards (3.a.i-ix) are borrowed from #OpenScience or conventional pre-Trump science. So far, so good.
2. Implementing the new standards is left to Trump-appointed political operatives (3.c).
3. With minor exceptions, agencies must make public "the data, analyses, and conclusions" on which they make policy (4.a.i.A).
More on the 3d point. In Trump's first admin, the Environment Protection Agency (#EPA) and Dept of the Interior required that all data used in policymaking be open. That seemed to be a laudable #OpenData policy. But it meant that EPA couldn't set policy based on private medical data on the harms caused by air- and water-borne pollutants. It was a head-fake to open in order to relax policies protecting the environment. That's why I called it #OpenWashing. Point 3 above is a big step in the same direction.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=#oa.epa+AND+#oa.openwashingNote that #Project2025 (p. 439) calls for this kind of openwashing, specifically at the EPA. The new Trump EO acts on that recommendation and extends it to all federal agencies.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf#DefendResearch #GoldStandard #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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@kdnyhan @mike
Yes. I called this #openwashing because it used the halo of openness or transparency to block regulations that would protect the environment and climate. (Medical studies on the harms of airborne pollution could not fully open their data, for reasons of medical privacy.) Here are the #OATP items I tagged with that sort of openwashing during the first #Trump administration.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=(%23oa.trump+OR+%23oa.epa)+AND+%23oa.trumpBut note that #Project2025 calls for both (1) this older kind of #EPA openwashing and (2) direct, unembargoed #OpenAccess (or #PublicAccess) to EPA-funded research, echoing the Biden-era #NelsonMemo. See p 439: "Add teeth to long-standing executive orders, memoranda, recommendations, and other policies to require that EPA regulations are based on transparent, reproducible science as well as that the data and publications resulting from taxpayer-funded activities are made immediately available to the public."
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I'm starting a #Mastodon thread on the new #Trump administration's actions and positions on #OpenAccess to research.
I posted frequently about the actions of his first administration. But I did it on #Twitter / #X, which I no longer use.
Also see my separate Mastodon thread on outside efforts to capture and preserve research and data that the admin has taken down or might take down.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114359552828366397Also see this wiki page where I'm collecting my old Twitter posts on his first term and my new Mastodon posts on his second term.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/The_Trump_administrations_on_open_access_to_researchFor updates, watch this space.
#DefendResearch #OpenWashing #OSTP #ScholComm #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Am 4.12. fand im #Bundestag eine Expert:innen-Anhörung des #Digitalausschuss unter Leitung unseres Beiratsmitglieds @TabeaRoessner zum Thema „Open Source“ statt.
Es wurde erneut, u.a. von der @fsfe untermauert, dass es sich bei echter #OSS um #FreieSoftware handelt, welche alle 4 Freiheiten gewährt: Verwenden - Verstehen - Verbeiten - Verbessern.
4 Freiheiten = #OpenSource
<4 Freiheiten = #OpenWashingWeiterlesen: https://bundesverband-smart-city.org/open-source
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More openwashing from the timebank software world.
"After Edgar's passing in 2021, TimeBanks.Org sought to replace their outdated timebanking software, which had fallen behind in adopting modern digital standards. They searched worldwide for a technology partner and found Made Open."
https://cothrive.timebanks.org/tbo
Ah! They realised their mistake with CommunityWeaver 3 and went back to commissioning software from a company committed to. Open Source. Nope.
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#lifehacking si vous voulez que votre code soit fusionné à un dépôt open source, causez davantage avec les gens qui gèrent le dépôt avant de coder quoi que ce soit.
et passez au moins autant de temps à causer qu'à coder, sans quoi les chances de fusionner risquent d'être très faibles.
on ne dirait pas comme ça mais l'open source c'est bien plus de discussions que de code.
et pour les mainteneurs, aidez les gens à contribuer en baissant les barrières à l'entrée de la participation, n'attendez pas que du code comme contribution, sinon vous faites juste de l'open washing quand vous dites "les pull request sont bienvenues, RTFM". -
@itsfoss Aha, more like "ajar source"...
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@anderseknert Looks like the replies to your post were deleted, since they certainly didn't look good for him!
To help other readers understand, #MongoDB is #proprietary and not #opensource. @osi did not approve the #SSPL as open source. The SSPL is also #nonfree.
The only one who claims that MongoDB/SSPL is open source is a single person who is #openwashing proprietary software using his website and his GitHub repo with 1 star. Just ignore it.
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It might be time for a broad (and thoughtful) conversation on the limits of openness, in the #OpenEcosystem? How do #OpenGovernment and #OpenData work within the #FreeSoftware framework? Do #OERs run the risk of promoting #fauxpen and #OpenWashing?
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Remember “Open APIs?” How Tim O’Reilly told us they were how we would build the “open web” in “Web 2.0?”
Turns out an Open API is open in the sense that a gate owned by someone else is open. In that it can just as easily be closed and locked at their whim.
#open #APIs #openAPIs #web2 #openWeb #SiliconValley #openWashing #timOReilly #freedom
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PSA: #MAILSPRING / #NYLASMAIL HAS *NOT* GONE OPEN SOURCE
Beware the #openwashing claims of this company about removing the need for a MailspringID and #opensourcing #MailSync. These make it sound like this #email project has gone #FOSS / #opensource, getting many to pay for a subscription for #privacy focused #email. The server though is (and is planned to remain) closed, #proprietary, #centralized and owned by a US corporation (Foundry 376 LLC).
Details:
https://community.getmailspring.com/t/a-free-open-source-future-for-mailspring/484/20Please boost.
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Need to #launderYourPersonality?
If you have billions? Donate a tiny part of your #printedMoney to a project, then have #corporateMedia fawn over your #charity. Govt need not apply.
Only a millionaire? Appear on a #houseHunting show and fawn over light and bright spaces and other details, as outlined in the #script.
#openWashing #survivalPorn #disasterPorn #culturalMasters #lordsAndSerfs #GAFAM #branding #Murdoch #PR #houseHunters #BigProperty #virtueSignal #payoff #payout #payday
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Important comment on Club good Governance masquerading as Public good with #openwashing.
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RT @logic
Renowned economist fears to speak openly against #Kaku and prefers to be anonymous. #DigitalDictatorshipvia @TheKenWeb https://the-ken.com/story/abhijit-mishra-rbi-google-pay/
https://twitter.com/logic/status/1292732332210716673 -
Important comment on Club good Governance masquerading as Public good with #openwashing.
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RT @logic
Renowned economist fears to speak openly against #Kaku and prefers to be anonymous. #DigitalDictatorshipvia @TheKenWeb https://the-ken.com/story/abhijit-mishra-rbi-google-pay/
https://twitter.com/logic/status/1292732332210716673