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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thank you for sharing this information . </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">If there are more examples of GIS vendors , please share so the wider GIS user community can learn from this. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is important that</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><font size="3">consumers are not tricked by any clever </font><font size="3">marketing </font>strategies<font size="3"> </font><font size="3">by
any vendors </font><font size="3">and consumer rights are fully protected.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best wishes,</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> GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Christian Willmes <c.willmes@uni-koeln.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 November 2018 10:30<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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<p>Yes there is a good example for this. I think this could actually be THE textbook example of open washing in GIS:</p>
<p><a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/open-vision/overview" id="LPlnk392643" previewremoved="true">https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/open-vision/overview</a></p>
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<p>just my 2 cents ;)<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">Am 02.11.18 um 11:01 schrieb Suchith Anand:<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_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk24056" 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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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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