"purity"

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In a message dated 98-04-21 10:55:49 EDT, you write:

<< If people are turning away from Open Space because they saw what
 they were told was Open Space and were turned off by it, that is a problem.
 However, since "Open Space" and "OST" are not trademarks, there's little that
 can be done to prevent perversions, intentional or not.  >>

Perversions?
There is another risk.  That is that practioners who use Open Space well will
be stigmitized by a segment of practitioners who apply it with the zeal of
religious conversion.  Even though I am reletively new to the communtiy, I
have already run into highly repected organizational consultants who see one
element of Open Space practitioners becoming cult like in their devotion and
need for "purity".

Joe