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# OpenCola
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Open Source Cola
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OpenCola is a brand of open source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable.
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Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they,
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too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License. Since recipes are, by themselves, not copyrightable,
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the legal basis for this is untested.[1]
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The original version 1.0 was released on 27 January 2001. Current Version is 1.1.3. Although originally intended as a
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promotional tool to explain free and open source software, the drink took on a life of its own and 150,000 cans were
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sold. The Toronto-based company Opencola founded by Grad Conn, Cory Doctorow, and John Henson became better known for
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the drink than the software it was supposed to promote. Laird Brown, the company's senior strategist, attributes its
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success to a widespread mistrust of big corporations and the "proprietary nature of almost everything."
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This implementation walks you through the ingredients and preparation in the form of an Interactive Fiction and as such
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will make the open source license valid for the recipe.
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