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RChickenMan
December 30th, 2006, 07:30 AM
I'm kind of surprised no one has posted about this yet... I heard a story on Marketplace today about a guy who is fed up with corporate ownership of intellectual property and decided to start brewing a beer based on the same philosophy as free/open source software. The way the story was presented makes this link very clear. The beer is not free as in no cost, because of course it costs money to brew beer. However, the recipe for the beer (or "source code" if you will) can be freely distributed for others to brew and profit off of as well.

Link to marketplace story (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/12/29/PM200612295.html)

Sef
December 30th, 2006, 08:35 AM
He's not the first one to do it. There was some people, a university in Denmark I believe, who did the same thing a few years ago.

ButteBlues
December 30th, 2006, 08:37 AM
We may have to find another euphamism for "Free as in Freedom and free as in beer". :p

3rdalbum
December 30th, 2006, 09:39 AM
It happens all the time, but the open-source beers never sell very well. Why? Because no FOSS people can brew a decent drop! :-)

smoker
December 30th, 2006, 09:46 AM
hme, if ms started brewing beer, would it be that bloated you'd need a bigger glass?

maybe also dangerous to drink, full of viruses:-)

Hex_Mandos
December 30th, 2006, 03:43 PM
Will my beer and my glasses be compatible out of the box?

beercz
December 30th, 2006, 03:59 PM
Yes please :mrgreen:

Cheers !

BWF89
December 30th, 2006, 04:38 PM
Free beer would only catch on if there was another prohibition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States).

fuscia
December 30th, 2006, 04:53 PM
should be "free, as in white lightning".

RChickenMan
December 30th, 2006, 05:17 PM
Sell it at bars near techy college campuses. Many subcultures have a beer associated with them, it's about time Linux gets one.

mostwanted
December 30th, 2006, 05:26 PM
The original free beer:

http://www.free-beer.dk/blog/

Kernel Sanders
December 30th, 2006, 06:17 PM
Will my beer and my glasses be compatible out of the box?

Will the glass need "patching"? :mrgreen:

BWF89
December 30th, 2006, 06:52 PM
should be "free, as in white lightning".
My great grandma made that during prohibition.