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Open vs. Fauxpen

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Tristan Louis gives weight to new term that I like a lot: fauxpen. Faux in French means "false" or "fake". So fauxpen means fake open. There has always been a lot of that going around, but since the world of tech inevitably contains more of everything, there's more fauxpen stuff than ever.

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Comments (3)

moopst ·
Like Rambus and OOXML, can we call them "Stanturds"?
Sander_Marechal ·
c.f. the exFAT story by Carla...
tuxchick ·
LOL Stanturds. **die**

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