Mugato: There's no way a judge said anything like that about Scientology. He would have been lobotomized and would have issued a retraction.

You sound like an Operating Thetan.

1. The words "public domain" don't really have anything to do with this
2. This appears to be a good ruling.
3. It doesn't appear to be a very meaningful ruling. Unless there's more to it, a decision about "trade secrets" doesn't seem related to Psystar'ss right-of-first-sale of legally-acquired copies of Apple software, or any of the other larger aspects of the case.

FTFA Kiwi Camara, an attorney for Psystar

Wow, her parents must have hated her.

Information already in public domain cannot be sealed to the public

IIRC, wasn't the film It's a Wonderful Life in the public domain for quite a while (which was why it always used to be shown by local TV stations around the holidays), before the original copyright owners somehow got back and extended their copyright?

1. Put mouse in Coke, sue to have formula disclosed.
2. ??
3. Profit.

Dear Jerk: 1. Put mouse in Coke, sue to have formula disclosed.

Why are people so obsessed with the Coke formula?

It's water, HFCS, caffeine, carbonation, and food coloring. I guarantee that there aren't any exotic or fancy ingredients in there.

Doc Daneeka: Dear Jerk: 1. Put mouse in Coke, sue to have formula disclosed.

Why are people so obsessed with the Coke formula?

It's water, HFCS, caffeine, carbonation, and food coloring. I guarantee that there aren't any exotic or fancy ingredients in there.

Um.... Have you lost your tongue in a tragic nitric acid accident?

Doc Daneeka: Dear Jerk: 1. Put mouse in Coke, sue to have formula disclosed.

Why are people so obsessed with the Coke formula?

It's water, HFCS, caffeine, carbonation, and food coloring. I guarantee that there aren't any exotic or fancy ingredients in there.

Cinnamon, for sure. Lots of other stuff too.
/Doesn't care either

Doc Daneeka: It's water, HFCS, caffeine, carbonation, and food coloring. I guarantee that there aren't any exotic or fancy ingredients in there.

Oh yes there is -- why do you think the CIA had Obama teleporting to Mars?

cman: Emposter: FTFA Kiwi Camara, an attorney for Psystar

Wow, her parents must have hated her.

Thats actually a man.

And quite a young man at that.

Yep, that's the downside to trade secrets. You're allowed to keep them, and you have certain recourse against people who violate agreements to not disclose the secret, but once it's out, it's out. In some cases, the contents of a blown trade secret may act as their own prior art, rendering the secret unpatentable.

Doc Daneeka: Dear Jerk: 1. Put mouse in Coke, sue to have formula disclosed.

Why are people so obsessed with the Coke formula?

It's water, HFCS, caffeine, carbonation, and food coloring. I guarantee that there aren't any exotic or fancy ingredients in there.

What about the nutmeg oil and lemon juice and casea? Oh yeah, not exotic enough.

Nightmaretony: Doc Daneeka: Dear Jerk: 1. Put mouse in Coke, sue to have formula disclosed.

Why are people so obsessed with the Coke formula?

It's water, HFCS, caffeine, carbonation, and food coloring. I guarantee that there aren't any exotic or fancy ingredients in there.

What about the nutmeg oil and lemon juice and casea? Oh yeah, not exotic enough.

Published versions say it contains sugar or high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, caffeine, phosphoric acid, coca extract, kola nut extract, lime extract, vanilla, and glycerin. Alleged syrup recipes vary greatly. The basic "cola" taste from Coca-Cola and competing cola drinks comes mainly from vanilla and cinnamon; distinctive tastes among various brands are the result of trace flavorings such as orange, lime and lemon and spices such as nutmeg.[1] Some natural colas also include cola nut; Coca-Cola does not, and chemical testing reveals none.[2]

Because cocaine is naturally present in coca leaves, today's Coca-Cola uses "spent," or treated, coca leaves, those that have been through a cocaine extraction process, to flavor the beverage. The coca leaves are imported from countries like Peru and Bolivia, and they are treated by chemical company Stepan, which then sells the de-cocainized residue to Coca-Cola.[3] Some contend that this process cannot extract all of the cocaine alkaloids at a molecular level, and so the drink still contains trace amounts of the stimulant.[1][4] The Coca-Cola Company currently refuses to comment on the continued presence of coca leaf in Coca-Cola.[5][6] To this day, Coca-Cola uses a United States license to purify the coca leaf for medicinal use.[7]

There is question as to whether the company uses cochineal dye in Coca-Cola , but the company denies that it currently uses the dye. [8]




There was also a Hevay Metal story about a guy in the future who buys one of the last remaining vats of syrup.


"What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good."

- Andy Warhol

I'm reading this on a hackintosh, so I'm getting a kick out of...