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How To Make Money With Free Software
bmsleight writes "The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition to design not a building, but rather the new 5-Euro commemorative coin. The theme was 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winning design was made 100% with free software, mainly Python, but also including The Gimp, Inkscape, Phatch, and Ubuntu. The design is amazing — the head of Queen Beatrix is made up of the names of architects based on their popularity in Yahoo searches (rendered in a font of the artist's own devising). In the end the artist, Stani Michiels, had to collaborate closely on location with technicians of the Royal Dutch Mint, so all the last bits were done on his Asus Eee PC. Soon, 350,000 Dutch people will use and enjoy the fruits of free software."
This article was on here a couple of days ago. DUPE!
Wasn't this posted a few days ago? Ensue the copy-pasting of witty comments...
.: Max Romantschuk
This was the last post I saw before I went home from work last friday and it is the first one I see when I come here today. I suppose nothing exciting happened over the weekend.
Amazingly ugly.
I will admit it's a unique coin, but beyond that, it's just really, really ugly.
If only there was a way to make money off slashdot dupes!.
I mean, it's like a perpetual motion machine or something. Almost as if the editors themselves don't read the articles. AT ALL.
Yeah, echo the same comments. Let me echo mine, the guy's done an insanely good job with the font thickness to create the queen out of near ASCII art. Respect.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
The Dutch are like Scontsmen, but without the generosity.
I'm not sure who these 'Scontsmen' are, but I think you're implying that they are far more generous than the Dutch or the Scotsmen.
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Obviously he's time traveling and winning again!
-- Dave
up 12 days, 22:30, 2 users, load averages: 993.20, 994.21, 994.56
*makes note to limit user processes...
1. Create article about designing coin and winning contest
2. Post same article to Slashdot including link to website with story MULTIPLE TIMES
4. Farm ad revenue
3. Profit
Here's a video that describes very well what I felt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbtAFq7dP8
(it's not Rick, honest)
Wow, all I need to make unlimited money, 5 euros at a time, is that list of free software (and maybe the specific PC model). I should be able to fake up those coins precisely, especially after I scan one pulled from circulation. And since the coin is so new, and doesn't look like the familiar eurocoins, most of the 500 million Europeans who use euros will be easy targets for passing my fakes.
Never before has "making money with free software" looked so easy and lucrative!
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DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
It's bad enough for have the same voters registering two or three times...... now we have the same articles being posted twice or thrice. Looks like ACORN has been busier than I thought.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
If only the GPL worked the way the anti-GPL schills think it does and "infected" all your output...
Then we'd all have the right to copy and distribute 5 Euro coins. Woohoo!
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Hell, I know how to make money even without free software:
1. Post an article about nothing in particular with a misleading title that will attract thousands of Slashdotters.
2. Post the EXACT SAME ARTICLE with the EXACT SAME HEADLINE three days later.
3. Ad revenue -> Profit!
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I suppose there is a certain comic quality to see two comments reporting in the same words that this is a duplicate.
dont care that its free but wow, beautiful. i think free, and paid for, are two very diferent things. most of the people i know have never bought software before. its all free online!
What was the artist's commission on that design? Everyone already knows that open source is good for the "environment". But how good is it for an individual?
Thank you for sharing your basement world view.
This is not the sig you're looking for.
1. Create post about designing coin and winning contest
2. Post same post to Slashdot MULTIPLE TIMES to generate more page views and advertising
4. Farm ad revenue
3. Profit
Dupe. Wake me up when someone renders a coin in emacs, that would have infinite hack value.
Here's the link to the official announcement at the Royal Dutch Mint. It's funny to see how a Belgian wins a Dutch contest.
Well, it worked for them?
Soon, 350,000 Dutch people will use and enjoy the fruits of free software.
Any value in the design is put there by the designer. No software, free or otherwise, will design a coin for you. Well, that is until Microsoft produces a Word template for it. And then they'll all be crap and overused.
The REAL answer to "How To Make Money With Free Software":
Just look at the past of FOSSie big business. The REAL money is suckering a bunch of Venture Capitalists into thinking you can make money giving stuff away for free. It's worked for Ubunghole, it's worked for Lindows/Linspire/Linschitz (or w/e they are calling themselves this week). It's worked for Red Hat. It's worked for tons of other high profile, highly unprofitable businesses.
Your FOSS project can be big money... until the VC money runs out. So just spend and spend and spend like there's no tomorrow! Because, honestly, there isn't, at least not for a FOSS based business.
Dupes are good for at least one thing: Tons of posts modded as Funny.
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That is really too awesome! And the fact it was made with o.s.s. is even more awesome! And what makes it even better is that his work stayed safe on his OSS OS, unlike mine which lost two days work after a fsck.
You're only jealous because it's above sea level.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Damn drink, makes you real stupid. I looked at that title and tried to figure out how many days had passed, or rather didn't pass since how could this be, when it seems like days ago that this story was here. ... it was days ago, it turns out. And I forgot, I don't even drink! It's the internet that makes you real stupid!
Mac OS X uses the Mach microkernel
That's the ugliest coin I have ever seen.
Alchemist: Be Thou For the People
How can you be sure, if you never get out?
This is not the sig you're looking for.
The dupes are the ones reading the dupe.
Or responding to it, like this one.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Well it isn't full of water.
P.S. Where's your bike?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That's incorrect. I've met several who could speak perfectly good English.
Dutchmen, that is.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.