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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Re:I don't get it.... by billcopc · 2008-10-30 10:30 · Score: 0, Troll

The big deal is that his adsense blog gets a good slashdotting this way.
Nevermind the fact that he isn't showing any code, so in theory he could have done the whole thing with commercial software, then written a few keyword-rich paragraphs to troll us.
The best part is we'll never know.

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Re:More like... by shmlco · 2008-10-30 10:36 · Score: 0, Troll

No, he designed the money. The Dutch mint will actually MAKE the money.
BTW, this just reinforces the fact the F/OSS people can't design. That coin, especially the back, has to be one of the ugliest things I've ever seen.

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