I'm providing a definition, not a list of assertions. My point was that the phrase "open office" means so many different things in so many different situations

I'm providing a definition, not a list of assertions. My point was that the phrase "open office" means so many different things in so many different situations that it's no wonder people suffer under it. The phrase itself has been destroyed as a useful concept. Now it's fair to say that my definition isn't applicable here, but, well, it is my definition. I teach this stuff. I'm sure all the folks making these cattle-call working spaces have their definitions as well. That's fine. It sounds like we need to start disambiguating the concept to prevent more of this cluster-fuckery.