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Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by coldtea on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:11AM (#45679836)
If the recipe is hidden, yes.

It's probably illegal too, as in many jurisdiction the public, or at least a health/food regulatory body should know the process and ingredients.

Take into account allergens, and on top of a matter of public knowledge and health, it can also be a matter of life and death.

Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by theshrike79 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:25AM (#45680278)
List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

It's like saying "Linux uses C" and now you instantly can copy Linux =)

Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by coldtea on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:07PM (#45685575)
> List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

It does however play a hugely important role in a recipe, in a way than the choice of language doesn't play in a program (especially considering turing completeness). So the analogy is broken.

Besides nobody made the point that list of ingredients makes a recipe.

Just that it's important to know the list of ingredients for a food you're gonna eat, and that it's even illegal to not disclose them (either to the public or a regulatory body) if you sell food.

Re:Be Careful with Obsidian by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Thursday October 23, 2025 @04:27PM (#45686637)
> List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

Apologies if the parent comment was edited after you wrote yours but a "process and ingredients" does a recipe make.