How To Make Money With Free Software

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2008 @09:54AM from the actual-money dept.

fons writes "Dutch Python hacker/artist Stani took part in a contest organised by the Dutch Ministry Of Finance to design a 5 euro commemorative coin. And he won, using only free software: 'The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the SPE editor. For the visual power I used PIL and pyCairo. From time to time also Gimp, Inkscape and Phatch helped quite a bit. All the developing and processing was done on GNU/Linux machines which were running Ubuntu/Debian. I would have loved to release the coin under the GPL, which could maybe solve the financial crisis. However for obvious reasons I was not allowed to do that.'"

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GIMP by Max_W · 2008-10-30 17:58 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I do not know about all mentioned software, but GIMP is definitely the best image editing software. I use GIMP daily. Even thought I have got from the company other expensive soft, but GIMP is ( www.gimp.org ) just high above anything else.
I use GIMP on Windows, both XP and Vista.
From GIMP images do not come out "dull", as from other popular image editing software.
And yes, I like this 5 euro coin.