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Encyclopedia > OpenCola
OpenCola
Image:Opencola.png
Type Open source Cola
Manufacturer Opencola
Country of Origin Flag of Canada Canada
Introduced 2001
Related products Vores Øl

OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License. Image File history File links Opencola. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Several different brands of cola. ... OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... Vores Øl (Danish for Our Beer) is presented as the first open source beer. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing A brand is a collection of images and ideas representing an economic producer; more specifically, it refers to the concrete symbols such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. ... Several different brands of cola. ... An example recipe, printed from the Wikibooks Cookbook. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...


Although originally intended as a promotional tool to explain free software / open source software, the drink took on a life of its own and 150,000 cans were sold. The Toronto-based company Opencola founded by Grad Conn, Cory Doctorow and John Henson became better known for the drink than the software it was supposed to promote. Laird Brown, the company's senior strategist, attributes its success to a widespread mistrust of big corporations and the "proprietary nature of almost everything." This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... ... OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. ... Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of Creative Commons. ... A corporation is a legal person which, while being composed of natural persons, exists completely separately from them. ...

Contents

Flavoring formula

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Concentrate formula

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Beverage formula

Mix the concentrate with 5 parts filtered water and force carbonate the beverage, or use a soda fountain that will combine the concentrate with carbonated water at the tap.


In Italy

Some FLOSS ethics activists have started an Italian OpenCola project, but without any commercial purpose. The only thing the Italian OpenCola and the "official" OpenCola have in common is the name. The Italian version is clear and has never been sold. The term Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS or sometimes FOSS) is a hybrid term for both free software and open source software. ... Ethics (from the Ancient Greek ethikos, meaning arising from habit), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of value or quality. ...


See also

  • Coca-Cola formula
  • Vores Øl, open source beer

The Coca-Cola formula is The Coca-Cola Companys secret recipe for Coca-Cola. ... Vores Øl (Danish for Our Beer) is presented as the first open source beer. ...

External links

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
OpenCola
  • OpenCola soft drink
  • Cube Cola Bristol UK Guardian Newspaper Article
  • OpenBeer
  • FreeBeer
  • Japanese version of recipe

Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ... The original Wikisource logo. ...

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