open (process) — open is a Nextstep Mac OS X command line process that opens file(s), folder(s) or URL(s) in the GUI as though the user had double clicked on them. Files will be opened in the default application for their type, folders will be opened in the… … Wikipedia
Open business — represents a concept of doing business in a transparent way by intimately integrating an ecosystem of participants, collaborating in public space. Open business structures make contributors and non contributors visible such that the business… … Wikipedia
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Open standard — An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process). There is no single definition and interpretations vary… … Wikipedia
Open Software Foundation — The Open Software Foundation (OSF) was a not for profit organization founded in 1988 under the U.S. National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 to create an open standard for an implementation of the UNIX operating system.[1][2] Contents 1 History… … Wikipedia
Open source software development — is the process by which open source software (or similar software whose source code is publicly available) is developed. These are software products “available with its source code and under an open source license to study, change, and improve… … Wikipedia
Open-space technology — (OST) is an approach for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate style retreats, and community summit events, focused on a specific and important purpose or task but beginning without any formal agenda, beyond the overall purpose or theme.… … Wikipedia
Open peer review — describes a scientific literature concept and process, central to which is the various transparency and disclosure of the identities of those reviewing scientific publications. The concept thus represents a departure from, and an alternative to,… … Wikipedia
Open theism — is a recent theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology. Several of these… … Wikipedia
Open-hearth process — Open O pen, a. [AS. open; akin to D. open, OS. opan, G. offan, Icel. opinn, Sw. [ o]ppen, Dan. aaben, and perh. to E. up. Cf. {Up}, and {Ope}.] 1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English