October 21, 2005

Ale's What's Good for You

By AISHA LABI

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but free beer? That's another matter entirely, thanks to some students at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Charged with applying principles from the free-software movement to something tangible, the students devised an "open source" beer recipe in a workshop on intellectual-property and copyright issues.

"Beer seemed like the appropriate universal medium," says Rasmus Nielsen, a Danish artist who helped teach the course. "It's a