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Open Source Spreads Beyond Software

Posted by timothy on from the blueprints-have-open-source-beat dept.

B'Trey writes "Britain's Prospect Magazine is running an article entitled 'The Microsoft Killers.' The article covers the success of Open Source software in particular but also looks at how the methods and practices of Open Source are moving outside the software environment."

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  1. OpenCola by GolfBoy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As a gimic a software company did this with soda. They 'open sourced' the instructions to make the stuff. I think the company blew up in the dot com bust, but it was a cute idea.

  2. Re:Very exciting indeed! by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Redundant

    7Zip crashes my machine.