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Hmm is open cola still active?

Tried the website a few times and it seems dead.
Opencola.com

For those too lazy to check.. Wikipedia got links to the recepie Open cola


Anyone got any recepies for Cola for someone who have Diabetes ?

Just give it a few weeks for someone to come out with a GPLed cola drink.

There's already OpenCola, whose main website appears down, but description here

You will be able to make good money from BT if you package the technology in such a way that commercial interests can use it.

What makes you sure it is that simple "package the technology in such a way that commercial interests can use it" ? This is the biggest challenge for any open source (or even closed source for that matter) project.

BitTorrent has got a momentum, but in order to turn it into a commercial success it needs much more than an elegance of the solution and a general interest from a non-paying crowd.

Remember OpenCola (aka SwarmCast) ? It was almost exactly what BitTorrent is in the beginning, yet they evolved into knowledge management, which implies that there was no money in distributed content distribution as-is.

However, there are companies that are present in the subject area. Bycast, for example. But all of them specialize on the very narrow market segments, and that seems to be the only way to get the business off the ground.

2c

Sure there are a couple that are doing it. Grub and OpenCola are two that do it.

Try OpenCola

Yow. Here's Cola libre:
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft/
http://www.opencola.com/products/3_softdrink/index .php
Get it while it's there. OpenCola is getting out of soft drinks in favor of software.

Thank you for your interest in Opencola. The Opencola soft drink formula was a time-limited marketing promotion that ran publicly until 2001 in support of the company's introductory open source product offering. Opencola has since changed its strategic direction and is now focusing its core business on developing a proprietary distributed content search application.

Peer broadcasting is hardly something to write /. about, I'd say.

A franchise is a pretty simple business structure held together by common image and business processes. Normally a franchise owner pays a tithe to the franchiser in exchange to access to IP and in some cases a place to operate. Franchises are all geographically focused. That's why you can have lots of them and they all pay their dues to the slush fund at the top that grants them their right to exist.

The view from the top is pretty good. The franchiser gets to burn the advertising bucks and get to snort the coke off the stripper's tits and carry on like a mega corp exec., or whatever.

i have been trying to imagine an open sourced franchise. say for example a really cool team with some really cool software and really cool ways of developing software and tools etc decided that they'd provide the overall branding and infrastructure, and for no fee, but enforced compliance, people could adopt your franchise and your cool tools, processes, etc and your billing systems etc, and make good money or not as they choose, but rather than contribute money upstream, innovations and enhancements are fed through to all memebers of the franchise network.

a client would know that when they hire one franchise team they are getting a whole network of teams that work in very very similar ways, but with local enhancements that if generally accepted as beneficial, get accepted by the network of teams.

tools such as CVS and then sourceforge allowed open source projects to flourish. similarly tools such as p2p project management tools and billing systems, as well as automated unit testing ala JUnit, and a host of other eXtreme Programming widgets will allow teams to gather around a brand for the accelerating benefit of all. I think the so called open company manifesto, an amateur regurgitation of the main tennents of the ClueTrain Manifesto, missed the point entirely. The Open Cola experiment is a sham and a marketing gimmick. I quote "An important note: this is *not* the recipe for "OpenCola" -- that is, the canned beverage from OpenCola that you may have received at a trade show, or other venue or outlet. Making canned cola requires millions of dollars in abstruse gear and manufacturing gizmos. It's easier to make nerve gas than manufacture cola. This is a kitchen-sink recipe that you can make all on your own. It is *our* kitchen-sink recipe. We figured it out somewhere between coding the COLA SDK and debugging the Linux build of the clerver." [from their recipe].

But there is no reason why the philosophies surrounding the open source movement cannot have direct impact on the way a multinational runs, as well as the legal system, education, health care, prisons, terrorist networks, and even the military. an open sourced army? be the first on your block. :-)

From opencola's formula page

An important note: this is *not* the recipe for "OpenCola" -- that is, the canned beverage from OpenCola that you may have received at a trade show, or other venue or outlet. Making canned cola requires millions of dollars in abstruse gear and manufacturing gizmos. It's easier to make nerve gas than manufacture cola. This is a kitchen-sink recipe that you can make all on your own. It is *our* kitchen-sink recipe. We figured it out somewhere between coding the COLA SDK and debugging the Linux build of the clerver.

The folks at OpenCola have thought up a really cool use of P2P - to Save a website's Bandwidth Problems. The technology allows websites to send parts of a large file to individual users, and then each user uses P2P to get the rest of the file. I think it's a really cool way to stop net congestion. No wonder they're one of Fortune's 25 cool companies of 2001.

The company's name is OpenCola and the name of the product was SwarmCast. The guy who did SwarmCast, Justin Chapewske, is now at a company he started named Onion Networks. OpenCola appears to have completely abandon its original Open Source approach to their software.

Apparently, Justin has taken the GPL portions of Swarmcast and is improving them at Onion Networks.

Why wait?

Not forgetting of course OpenCola - I gotta make me some of that!

from this link.

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I've put up a Swarmcast mirror of the content here.

Swarmcast is BETA (it gots boogs) software that will soon be released under the GPL. The installation procedure sucks right now but the situation will quickly improve.

Swarmcast is peer-to-peer software that uses the bandwidth of the peers that are currently or recently downloaded a piece of content to help boost everyone elses download. So its basically like having a bunch of partial-horsepower mirrors.

If you're not into that "altruism" stuff then you can just ignore this post and hammer directly on kernel.org.

You can join the Swarmcast devel mailing list here. and let us know what you think.

However, HotOrNot is a "context free" metric. You look at a single picture and decide that the person is hot or not. Unfortunately, this isn't all that useful as the answers tend to be very close to either "1" or "10" A much better implementation would be just "thumbs up" or "thumbs down." K5 also suffers from this problem when it asks users to rate comments on a scale of 1 to 5. Keeping it simple would make the ratings much more effective.

Pick the Hottie on the other hand implements a contextual metric. Instead of rating a picture on it's own you look at two pictures and click the one you think is hotter. It's much easier to decide between coffee or tea than it is to rate coffee on a scale of 1 to 10. Effectively the site is sorting pictures using human judgement for the comparison function. This way you get much more useful results. With this system you can get the "Top 10 Hotties." With HotOrNot there are probably thousands of images that are 10.0 or 9.9.

Justin Chapweske of Open Cola gets the credit for pointing out this one.

burris

I'm totally overwhelmed by the positive response here (and, of course, wincing at the negative ones... Yah, I shoulda closed the <i> tag, I need to fix the stylesheet, I shoulda linked to Vinge, etc etc etc), especially from old friends and other nominees. Thanks folks. If you're interested in more information on the notion that "piracy" is in fact the future of media-distribution, have a look at the software company I founded last year, openCOLA -- yes, we're the same people who are releasing an open source softdrink.

mouthbeef also brought up an interesting point that's been debated back and forth in /. (as well as just about everywhere you turn these days): file sharing. Apparently, there's been a fair bit of concern amongst writers about their work getting copied and passed around on the net. A few have considered firing up their legal war machines, and mouthbeef had this to say on his site...

I know it's bad form to use this podium as a bully pulpit, but there is one thing I want to say:

There's been a lot of hand-wringing this year about electronic piracy. Here's how I see it: When someone spends their unpaid work-days converting your work to electronic format, when that person passes it around the network, recommending it -- well, that's pretty close to the kind of publicity writers wish their publishers would spring for.

More than anything else, our writerly priority has to be figuring out how to make money off of that dynamic.

More than anything else, we need to figure out how to stop suing these amateur publicists and put them on the payroll.