OpenCola Rises From the Ashes… On Digg
Posted on February 18, 2007
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Imagine my surprise to find a story about OpenCola on the homepage of Digg this morning positioned as though it were a new, breaking event.
Apparently a blog called Everything Else picked up on OpenCola’s open-source cola recipe, didn’t fact check their post and wrote:
f you’ve been to a computer show in recent months you might have seen it: a shiny silver drink can with a ring-pull logo and the words “opencola” on the side. Inside is a fizzy drink that tastes very much like Coca-Cola. Or is it Pepsi?There’s something else written on the can, though, which sets the drink apart. It says “check out the source at opencola.com.” Go to that Web address and you’ll see something that’s not available on Coca-Cola’s website, or Pepsi’s — the recipe for cola.
Ahh, were it that that were true. Having worked at OpenCola I can assure you the company is long dead and not likely to rise from any ashes any time soon. Long live the OpenCola legacy (and thank you web for stirring up the memories, and the morning laugh, inter-web)!
The cola did taste pretty good too. I still have a can of it above my desk. I wonder if it’ll age like wine….
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