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TIL Openwashing

Openwashing - Wikipedia

Presenting something as open, when it is not actually open.

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- Or OpenWeathermap.
  
  Or the gas station near my house when they forget to turn the sign off.
Hashicorp has entered the chat
Winamp?
- It really whips the llama's ass
  
  Well... it used to... ...
- New winamp, yes. The original never claimed to be foss.
OpenAI
Ahh, for one moment I was excited seeing an open source washing machine project. Then I opened the post and now I'm sad...
Unreal engine comes to mind
- Does it tout itself as open?
  I don't have much respect for the software, and even less respect for the useful idiots praising it despite never having used it.
  It's my understanding that it's proprietary software, but you can use it for free and only have to pay if you make money off of a program developed with it.
  
  Your understanding is mostly correct. The code is also visible on GitHub and you can compile it yourself, but that's it. I don't know if it is officially promoted as open source, but I knew a handful of epic evangelists that said that it was.
Like the corner store forgetting to flip the sign on the door to “closed” after closing.
in my town the gas station that's been closed for 10 years and is covered in vines still has a open sign on it lol

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