[OT] Open-Source Cola

2002-07-04 Thread Ellis Teer 

I thought the community might appreciate this, open source applied to 
other products, including the article itself.  My apologies if it is too 
off topic.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13494


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RE: [OT] Open-Source Cola

2002-07-04 Thread Danny Angus 


 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: [OT] Open-Source Cola

2002-07-04 Thread 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 :-)



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  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: [OT] Open-Source Cola

2002-07-04 Thread Martin van den Bemt 

It's GPL ;) So not apache compatible ;)

Mvgr,
Martin

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 11:19, Ellis Teer wrote:
 I thought the community might appreciate this, open source applied to 
 other products, including the article itself.  My apologies if it is too 
 off topic.
 
 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13494
 
 
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 www.sitepen.com
 
 
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