How To Make Money With Free Software 187
fons writes "Dutch Python hacker/artist Stani took part in a contest organised by the Dutch Ministry Of Finance to design a 5 euro commemorative coin. And he won, using only free software: 'The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the SPE editor. For the visual power I used PIL and pyCairo. From time to time also Gimp, Inkscape and Phatch helped quite a bit. All the developing and processing was done on GNU/Linux machines which were running Ubuntu/Debian. I would have loved to release the coin under the GPL, which could maybe solve the financial crisis. However for obvious reasons I was not allowed to do that.'"
Re:More like... (Score:5, Funny)
You could have the same title for an article about an author that wrote a book using OpenOffice.
Slashdot actually rejected my submission when I did just that. It's a pity, too; Return of Macbeth is an instant classic.
Re:Making money (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, people printing too much money was how this crisis started in the first place. ... issuing more credit).
(and they are going to solve it by
Is that what they call the XML solution?
Re:How to Make Money with Free Software (Score:4, Funny)
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I've always wanted to work in a mint. And then go on strike. To make less money.
(Not the original quote, and I can't remember who said it originally. But relevant for this context.)
humor alert: It's a joke, and it's funny! (Score:5, Funny)
For the humor-impaired, it's a pun:
make (earn) money vs. make (design) money
referring to the often asked question, how do you make money with free software.
get it?
Re:Fuck Python (Score:5, Funny)
The GP makes a post, saying "Fuck Python C# for life!", and you make a post essentially saying "Fuck C#, real languages for life!".
It's a real battle of wits, isn't it?
How dare someone prefer one programming language to another!
Re:How to Make Money with Free Software (Score:2, Funny)
I take it you don't know your ASCII table by heart? 00101111 00101110 is far from dead.
Re:Fuck Python (Score:5, Funny)
Even I could tell you that (Score:2, Funny)
All you need to do is this! Its simple and GUARANTEED to make YOU money! $$$!
Pay me $500 for the right to develop my wonderful ideas, and then just recruit TWO MORE PEOPLE to develop it for you, and promise that they get money! GUARANTEED RESULTS!!!! YOU can make FREE MONEY!! FREEEEEEE!!!!!!
Re:Fuck Python (Score:5, Funny)
I hear you.
Fuck emacs, vi for life!
And with the award money... (Score:5, Funny)
Asked what he was going to do with the award money, the artist said "I'll finally be able to afford Photoshop!" ;)
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That coin, especially the back, has to be one of the ugliest things I've ever seen.
The distended anus of the child of tubgirl and Rick Astley?
Re:Fuck Python, no, Fuck C# (Score:4, Funny)
You just got whoooosh'd.
Re:Fuck Python (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, Malbolge is the best language ever!
Re:Fuck Python, no, Fuck C# (Score:5, Funny)
it's also an extended version of "ed" that is a very useful tool.
Yesterday my Fedora 9 updater told me that I had a security update.
For ed.