OpenCola is a Cola brand that produces the eponymous soft drink, unique in that the recipe is freely available. Anyone can make this drink on their own, as well as modify and improve its recipe , as it is distributed under the GNU General Public License .
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History
The drink was used by the eponymous Canadian company, created in 1999 and engaged in the development of applications for peer- to -peer networks , as an advertising move. For several years, at computer exhibitions, visitors were offered cans with a drink reminiscent of the well-known Coca Cola drink , which indicated its composition and placed an invitation to visit the company's website, where you could find the full recipe and instructions for making the drink. The recipe was licensed under the GNU GPL , which allowed anyone to make OpenCola and any modifications to it at home. [one]
The company itself became known to the public, first of all, as a manufacturer of a drink, and over the entire period of its existence, about 150,000 cans of OpenCola drink were sold [2] . In 2003, it was acquired by Open Text Corporation . The production and support of the drink was discontinued. However, the drink remains popular as a symbol of open source principles [1] .
See also
- Vores Øl
- Cola
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Denis Konovalchik, Non-software open-source Archived copy of December 19, 2010 on the Wayback Machine // Computerra, February 3, 2005
- ↑ AUUGN Mar 2002 // Australian UNIX and Open Systems Users Group, [1]