OPENNESS

Openness

Openness may refer to a general philosophical position highlighted by a decision-making process recognizing communal management by distributed stakeholders rather than a centralized authority . It accepts new ideas, methods, or changes.

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openness

Noun

  1. Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one's own.
  2. The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
  3. degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify computer code in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing that code.
  4. The degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.


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