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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
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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/30/2138259
The Dutch are like Scontsmen, but without the generosity.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/30/2138259
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
Obviously he's time traveling and winning again!
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up 12 days, 22:30, 2 users, load averages: 993.20, 994.21, 994.56
*makes note to limit user processes...
I didn't really have to check which editor let this dupe through did I?
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
Congratulations on your purchase of a brand new nigger! If handled properly, your apeman will give years of valuable, if reluctant, service.
INSTALLING YOUR NIGGER.
You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.
CONFIGURING YOUR NIGGER
Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat
HOUSING YOUR NIGGER.
Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.
FEEDING YOUR NIGGER.
Your Nigger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nigger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other niggers, etc. Experienced nigger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nigger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all niggers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all niggers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his niggers as a result. You should never allow your nigger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nigger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You have no idea.
MAKING YOUR NIGGER WORK.
Niggers are very, very averse to work of any kind. The nigger's most
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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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?
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.
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.
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The dupes are the ones reading the dupe.
Or responding to it, like this one.
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