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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. echo comments by Gopal.V · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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.

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  2. All the colored girls sing: by oever · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dupe, du-dupe, du-dupe
    du-du-du
    dupe, du-dupe, du-dupe
    du-du-du duuupe

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  3. How to really make money with free software... by EmagGeek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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