February 27th, 2006
Open Source Beer
By Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Capturing the essence of open source software, a group of students in Copenhagen posted a beer recipe on the Internet and invited everyone to develop, brew and sell their product. The open source beer is an experiment in applying modern open source ideas and methods on a traditional real-world product. The beer is called “Vores Øl,” which means “Our Beer,” which is a traditionally brewed beer that is enhanced with guarana, for its natural caffeine boosting properties. Version 1.0 is a medium strong beer (6% vol) with a deep golden red color and an original but familiar taste. The students have also designed a bottle, a label for the beer and developed a marketing campaign. The recipe and the whole brand of Our Beer is published under a Creative Commons license, allowing anyone to use their recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of their recipe.
“You are free to earn money from Our Beer, but you have to publish the recipe under the same license (e.g. on your website or on our forum) and credit our work. You can use all our design and branding elements, and are free to change them at will provided you publish your changes under the same license.”
They are hoping with development of the recipe that perhaps one day it will become the Linux of beers
For the recipe and more info Source: Toronto Star
David Johnston says:
One thing’s for sure, both Open Source beer and Linux will give you a headache when you’ve had too much of them
February 27th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Austin says:
Microsoft should release a beer in which you do not own the beer, the beer bottle or know any of the ingredients inside the beer. When you purchase Microsoft Beer XP, you are actually purchasing a licence to drink the beer. Also, you may not share the beer with a friend.
/ This joke could go on and on.
// Loves me the SuSE linux.
February 27th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
David Johnston says:
I love SuSE Linux too actually…it’s my favorite distribution for ease of use
I think you forgot some parts of the Microsoft beer though. You see, you can also only get a small taste of it before you send Microsoft the bar code on the label along with a copy of your drivers license. Your beer will then be “activated” as long as you aren’t trying to drink it on a pirate ship. Also, if you try to leave your home or the bar while drinking the Microsoft beer, it will need to be reactivated.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Justin says:
Now the old explanation of “free as in beer” is just going to confuse people.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
nivoxz says:
well microsoft beer would eventually make the other beers brands to lose money and market due to agresive politics xD. you may be obligued to buy this microsoft beer instead of normal brands due to lack of availability, lol this sucks haha, well it’s fine to hear that there are people trying to make a nice product instead of trying to get rich by selling something that ALWAYS needs something else to function properly
February 28th, 2006 at 9:45 am
meneame.net says:
Cerveja “open source”
Dentro do espirto do Open Source, um grupo de estudantes Dinamarqueses publicaram a receita duma cerveja por eles produzida e pedem ajuda a todos para a melhorar.
February 28th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
JD on EP says:
Free as in beer
Free as in beer: I was always a bit confused by that phrase, when trotted out in the middle of a conversation to mean something — I always had to translate it as “let’s see, they contrast that with ‘free speech’, so which one do they think is unfe…
February 28th, 2006 at 3:49 pm