Open Source beer

Hearing the term Open Source most people, at least those with some interest in ICT, automatically think of software, the most famous being the operating system Linux. However, the Open Source philosophy can also be applied to the non-digital "old economy" of analogue products.

Danish students from the Information Technology University in Copenhagen recently released an open source beer recipe. Their beer is called in Danish Vores Oel, which means "our beer".

There have been other attempts before to apply the Open Source principle to hardware, but not with big success, as in the case of OScar, the Open Source car project. It still needs to be proven that Open Source can be a successful concept outside of the ICT domain.

'Free' Danish beer makes a splash, BBC News, 28 July 2005
Vores Oel website
OScar project