But Facebook believes in open source, said Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook.
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Now, after rigorous industry testing, German company Scheiblich Brewing Company is mass-producing Heiliger's invention, known as the Aubras fermenting system.
Heiliger says that his device takes up about 30 square meters, whereas traditional systems can be up to 300 square meters in size.
Heiliger expects OneID to use the funds from the Series A investment to complete its trials with platforms and get consumers using the service.
Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations quashed the rumor with a comment posted to a story floating the notion (Facebook has confirmed the comment is authentic).
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In this way, OneID should be able to figure out a business model and, Doll and Heiliger, expect the company to be ready to expand to the next level.
"I think it's unprecedented that a large file such as this is going to be distributed en masse, " said Jonathan Heiliger, chief executive officer of Frontier GlobalCenter, which runs the Yahoo search engine.
AUGSBURG, Germany (CNN) -- After 30 years of hard work and trial and error, brewmaster Axel Heiliger says he has come up with a way to save the beer industry time and money.
"Back when I first studied brewing, I thought, there must be a better way so I set to work to find one, " says Heiliger, who wants production of his invention to remain in Germany.
And while Heiliger does not know exactly how OneID will generate revenues, he does think that as it gains acceptance among these platforms, they will see the benefits of using OneID and be willing to pay.
Any normal brewer's yeast can be used in his process but the lifespan of the yeast is much longer than in traditional processing, where yeast degenerates after three brews and starts to affect the quality of the beer, says Heiliger.
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