RE: [OT] Open-Source Cola

[Les Hughes]

Interesting - that story was first published in New Scientist *ages* ago and
as it says, is copyleft but it took a time to get recycled though...

Anyway, without starting a mass flamewar, isnt the sourcecode the recipe to
make an executable, (just add Ant)? In the same way the recipe for opencola
makes, erm cola - just add a suitable build system - your kitchen? Doesn't
it offer some OSS benefits - add cherries, extra caffine etc and republish
the improved product? Isnt the real value in the IP which is itself in the
source not the actual derived product.

Of course, you need to buy the physical ingredients but when does the
commercial bit devalue the overall open bit?

Hmm, enough - I have a feeling I'm about to get flamed :-)



 -Original Message-
 From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: 04 July 2002 11:12
 To: Jakarta General List
 Subject: RE: [OT] Open-Source Cola
 
 
 
  Ellis Teer wrote:
 
  http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13494
 
 
 IMHO the trouble with OS hardware of any kind is that the so 
 called source
 is not the whole essential pre-requisite for the product, it 
 is merely the
 build documentation, whereas for OS software the source is in fact the
 product (or as near as makes no practical difference).
 
 This cola story bears as much relationship to OS as the 
 carrier pigeon RFC
 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt) does to network 
 architecture, it looks
 right in every detail but it doesn't offer any practical 
 benefit to anyone.
 
 d.
 
 
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RE: Interesting quote....

[Les Hughes]

Struth! It gets better! 

What next? IIS - Help - About (c) 1998 ASF That'd be the day

 
 Yes.  IIRC, The IE that came with windows originally (That didn't do 
 jack) was just Mosaic, which at the time
 had been recently acquired from NCSA, where Anderssen used to 
 work.  So 
 essentially, the netscape dude
 helped father both browsers.  Ironic eh?  (of course I felt until 
 mozilla ~.8 was released that both browsers sucked)

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RE: Interesting quote....

[Les Hughes]

Erm, IE 5.5 - Help - About

Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.

Now that's irony for you.


 -Original Message-
 From: Fernandez Martinez, Alejandro
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: 18 June 2002 11:03
 To: 'Jakarta General List'
 Subject: RE: Interesting quote
 
 
 +1 from a non-committer ;)
 
 Remember that Netscape originally competed against NCSA 
 Mosaic, it was only
 later that Microsoft entered the game.
 
 Un saludo,
 
 Alex.
 

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