Slashdot Mirror

If they were open source you'd first have to put the soda together yourself and the documentation would be incomplete. Come to think of it I'm sure the cars do exist and we all know about he open source beer, right?

Next time you want to go out for drinks just tell your friends it will be a few weeks until their ready (or pay someone to do it for you...or just get tired of it and pick up a six-pack of propriety beer from the supermarket..). (:

hey if beer can be open sourced
http://www.voresoel.dk/
i dont see why cars cant be

Just remember: you may need to drink these only with MS Cup's, due to compatibility issues. And don't even try to drink some opensource drinks. It will give a huge stomache pain.

So is beer. (It's not free beer as in free beer, but beer as in Free beer!)

Kraft has dominance on the cheese market and has a proprietary formula... some people are trying to make cheese available to everyone. Sounds a lot like the software industry. One company has dominance on the industry, and that company isn't willing to give away what the "ingredients" of the product are. A group of people are trying to make the product "available to anyone".

Open-source cheese isn't a crazy idea. There's already open-source beer.

Vores Øl contains guarana beans, as a natural source of energy, health and caffeine.

Conceivably, somebody could brew Vores Øl, and then later remove the caffeine, making it decaf...

Of course, the whole exercise would be as pointless as decaf coffee...

As a side note, here's a recipe for Open Source Beer from Denmark - http://www.voresoel.dk/

Details and recipe are available from http://www.voresoel.dk/. Unfortunately it is not currently available for purchase (it says on their homepage that they drank it instead).

Vores Øl beat them to it and licensed under the CC license. I wonder if Nestle has any derivative 'code' in their recipe?

What about the open source beer ? http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70 Made by a group of students at the IT-University in Copenhagen. It seems that they just copyed that idea.

Are you drunk?

What exactly is open source in your submission?

Yes, the News article carries the same stupid headline, but since you decided to shamelessly copy it, you should have made sure you don't submit shit.

Not only these two apps have aren't OSS, but in most cases they will ultimately run on proprietary OS like AIX and Windows.

The only OSS-related part in TFA is: Release 3 of its application server will be designed to more smoothly operate with third-party products, including open-source development "frameworks" such as Apache Spring and Hibernate, said Rick Shultz, vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Which isn't news anyway. It's Oracle marketing crap. If you want to report on it, dive into the docs and add value (make some technical or sales analysis on significance of that move).

I have a browser and already visit news.com every day, thank you very much.

Or is it free as in beer that's free as in speech, or free as in wine that's free like the beer that's free as in speech, or.. uhm...

.. into the open condiment industry. After open source beer it one of many a possibility ;)

I think you meant "...games will be actually opensource, LIKE free-as-in-beer..."

If you want Stallman-style free beer , you can go here . ;-)

Perhaps it's a fork...

>Black people?

No sir, I think he meant this:

http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70

Forget about software; we already play with that all day.

Why not introduce Open Source as a fun new idea in the form of the world's first open source beer?

Our Beer may be difficult to obtain in your neighborhood, but hey, you're free to make your own! That sounds like a fun introduction for any meeting. And while you're enjoying the benefits of Open Source Beer, you can talk about how the concepts might apply to software you produce or use, and how everyone can benefit from items created under this licensing scheme. Then list examples of OSS products that provide alternatives to proprietary software solutions you are currently using.

Well, if you'd RTFA

http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70

It has a Creative Commons License, so if you change it you have to publish your modyfied version as well

What's the definition af beer? People keep saying that beer is not free as in free software, but how about the Open Source beer?

http://www.voresoel.dk/

Didn't you hear? Beer is free as in speech now!

Yeah!! beer will keep those rebel scum in line..

It's interesting how the definition of "open source" has changed over the last few years. It used to be that I only ever heard "open source" associated with software. After all, software is built from source code.

It seems like the phrase "open source" is being confused with the similar, but different, "free to use", "free speech" or "freedom of expression." We hear about open source journalism, open source biology, open source research and even open source beer.

I'm not saying that this is a bad thing... I'm just making an observation. It makes me wonder if in twenty years from now, when new countries are writing their constitutions, will they guarantee their citizens "open source rights?"

English version:

http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=71