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Free Beer That's Free as in Speech

Posted by Zonk on from the best-of-both-worlds dept.

darkonc writes "The CBC has notes and an interview with Dane Rasmus Nielsen who decided to reduce the confusion between 'free as in speech' and 'free as in beer' by making a beer free -- in speech. The result is Vores Oel, an open source beer. The CBC site includes the recipe for the beer which is made with Guarana beans, and gives it a bit of a caffeine-like hit. The danish site downloads include the label for the beer (which is also Open Source)."

6 of 379 comments (clear)

  1. Freedom by KrisCowboy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Freedom - free as in free beer and free as in free speech. I bet RMS is happy.

    1. Re:Freedom by beware1000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

      I bet he's drunk.

    2. Re:Freedom by Orgazmus · · Score: 0, Redundant

      We all suspected that quite a while ago ;)

      --
      The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
    3. Re:Freedom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

      He'll be happy when it is renamed to GNU/Beer.

  2. Re:reduce the confusion? by Loualbano2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I say increase.

    I only looked at this story to leave your exact same comment.

    -Fran

  3. Budweiser Here by Frankie70 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    As a Budweiser representative, I am going to be filing a lawsuit on this open source beer thingy. I think we contributed to the SVR4 version of this recipe & hence this recipe partly belongs to us. We are going to be filing lawsuits on anybody who gets drunk on this beer.