A group of students at the IT-University in Copenhagen has created the first open source beer, i.e. the recipe is made available for anyone to use and improve, provided that they publish their version of the receipe as well. The beer is called Vores Oel, or Our Beer, version 1.0.
On their website, they answer the question "Why beer?" with this excellent quip:
Why not? We all like beer, and as an added bonus there is a legendary quote used to explain the concept of free software (now usually referred to as open source software):
"Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer".
Haha!
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