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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. Again? by owlnation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This article was on here a couple of days ago. DUPE!

    1. Re:Again? by BrotherBeal · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does it make more sense to call it a dupe or a counterfeit?

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  2. Duuuupe by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't this posted a few days ago? Ensue the copy-pasting of witty comments...

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    1. Re:Duuuupe by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

      This witty comment is being released under a creative commons licence.

      You are free to copy-paste it into a dupe.
      By Attribution. Share alike.

  3. So will the coins be open source? by itsdapead · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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