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New York Times; By Pamela Licalzi O'Connell 		Mail this story
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"With the proliferation of free (open-source) software, it was only a matter of time before open-source beer became reality." So stated a spoof news article in 1998 that turned out to be prescient. There now is such a thing as free beer - or at least a free recipe for beer - thanks to a group of Danish artists and university students in Copenhagen. [Free registration required to read.]

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chappaquachap ·
I sent a link to this article to Jim Gleason, organizer of the first "Linux Beer Hike" .

Here is Jim's response:

It's all true and not a spoof. In 1998 we brewed the first open source beer. I bought a birthday present for my Linux mentor in Berkeley California - for $100 you could brew your own beer in this brewing company's kitchen. He created the label "open source beer" and gave it to John maddog Hall from DEC... the godfather of Linux Torvalds' first child, who gave Torvalds an alpha machine to port Linux.

From there we took it on the road: http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,21249,00.html

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