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How To Make Money With Free Software

Posted by kdawson on from the coin-of-the-realm dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Dutch are stingy by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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  2. Re:All the colored girls sing: by TapeCutter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can you post the sax solo that comes after the colored girls, I love that bit.

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  3. Re:Again? by frglrock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's got to be a clone stamp tool joke in here somewhere...

  4. Re:dupe by argiedot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I suppose there is a certain comic quality to see two comments reporting in the same words that this is a duplicate.