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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for your mail. I agree with your inputs and observations.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">We need to enjoy the humour that all these open washing vendors are</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">providing freely to everyone!
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">I am enjoying the lot of humour coming from some GIS vendors adverts in recent years .
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> In future, we shouldn’t be surprised if we see any GIS vendors doing wholesale marketing/sales of “The Wisdom” .... Just joking :-)</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">I am of the view that both open and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">proprietary</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"> systems have an important place and need
to work together. We are all part of a big ecosystem all working for Geo.</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 3, 2018 05:05<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Geo4All] What is Openwashing? Is there any examples in GIS Vendors?</font>
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<div dir="auto">Just a note we can also use this opening marketing departments provide to have a good conversation about what open source communities and foundations offer beyond what even the best open washing can dress up as. We can also include the open
source companies on our service providers list as examples of organizations that get what we are trying to do with the world.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Meanwhile enjoy the humour, and be careful to point out the differences lease they give “open” a bad name. Each organization that is tripped up over the difference will have a bit more experience for next time.</div>
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<div dir="auto">And if you really care about communicating these differences please join the marketing team and lend your words to improving the world. We would love to have you :)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 5:01 AM Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" id="LPlnk658645" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I came across this term OpenWashing at </span><a href="http://openwashing.org" class="x_m_-5873510166572668266OWAAutoLink OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk672416" target="_blank" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://openwashing.org</span></a><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived from 'greenwashing.' </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Openwashing: n., having an appearance of open-source and open-licensing for marketing purposes, while continuing proprietary practices.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am trying to understand the impact of this in GIS. Is there any examples of GIS Vendors using this OpenWashing?</span></p>
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