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How To Make Money With Free Software
Posted by
kdawson
on Mon Nov 03, 2008 08:14 AM
from the coin-of-the-realm dept.
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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Again? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Again? (Score:5, Funny)
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Does it make more sense to call it a dupe or a counterfeit?
It's neither. Look at this beauty of a URL:
http://en.knm.nl/domains/knm/pagesarticle.asp?content=11720000000909_999_11650000000011navid=11650000000014_11720000000067&cookie=init [en.knm.nl]
Duping that is like cloning DNA.
It's not a dupe, it's... (Score:1, Troll)
Here's a video that describes very well what I felt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbtAFq7dP8 [youtube.com]
(it's not Rick, honest)
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This article was on here a couple of days ago. DUPE!
Given the subject of the article, "counterfeit" would be a more appropriate term.
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OK, seriously now. Seriously. Why is kdawson still "working" here?
He does this over and over again. He needs a special section: "Dupes, shills and scams". The guy clearly doesn't even read the site that he "edits". That would be like me submitting patches without ever checking out the code that I'm modifying.
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....should we expect all the rest of the stories from the past few days to be posted again today as well?
You must be new here......the answer is yes....but not because it was the weekend, but because dupes are a regular event.
Layne
Duuuupe (Score:5, Funny)
Wasn't this posted a few days ago? Ensue the copy-pasting of witty comments...
Re:Duuuupe (Score:5, 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.
Parent
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Get a new and improved witty comment for only $5.00 per month. Market research has shown it to load faster in all kinds of weather and it doesn't harm the children. 200% of proceeds go to support our troops and fight terrorism.
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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.
This comment is copyright sakdoctor.
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Wasn't this posted a few days ago? Ensue the copy-pasting of witty comments....
echo comments (Score:1, Redundant)
If only there was a way to make money off slashdot dupes! [slashdot.org].
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.
I thought you could only win once? (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously he's time traveling and winning again!
-- Dave
How to really make money with free software... (Score:3, Interesting)
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
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I'm pretty sure the profit comes after farming the ad revenue.
Therefore,
1. Create article designing coin and winning contest
2. Post article to Slashdot including link to website with story
2. Post article to Slashdot including link to website with story
3. Farm ad revenue
4. Profit
Fixed :) Gotta love copy-paste.
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Yes I noticed that after I'd posted, apparently I can't count past 2.
I could suggest it was the excitement of actually finding a relevant use for a Slashdot meme but it is however Monday, so I'm pulling out that card as my excuse instead!
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You're not alone. Apparently I forgot that copy-paste is a good way to copy text you're about to quote, not just to repeat an item more than once... (I missed "about" in point 1.)
Them computers, they're evil! Back in my day, you had to rewrite everything you wanted to duplicate, by hand, there was none of that copy-paste stuff!
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6. ??? :p
5. Learn to count
7. If your OCD tells you to end at 3, start at 0
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Making Free Forgery Money (Score:2)
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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I'm sure that if I produce over 10,000 of those coins, the machine and materials will cost less than E50,000.
And I'm also sure that I can find someone somewhere with a coin minting machine who won't ask any questions in exchange for a few dozen thousand euros. There are machines at low-budget carnivals that stamp blanks for souveniers which could probably pass for E5 long enough to get away with it, especially in hanfuls of other euros.
All the colored girls sing: (Score:1, Redundant)
Dupe, du-dupe, du-dupe
du-du-du
dupe, du-dupe, du-dupe
du-du-du duuupe
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Looks like ACORN struck here too. (Score:4, Funny)
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.
So will the coins be open source? (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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As most of the money is virtual (stored bits) these days, having at least one Linux storing money, could make them share the code of their "money server" so you can run a copy of it, storing your own money in your house in an OpenID-like way.
Why would you store your money on somebody else's computer when you can do a better job protecting it in your own system? ;)
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Why would you store your money on somebody else's computer when you can do a better job protecting it in your own system? ;)
Because the FDIC won't replace my money if I spill beer on my server.
Other ways to make money? (Score:1)
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!
wow (Score:1)
The most important question wasn't answered (Score:2)
could he do it in emacs? (Score:3, Funny)
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Dupe. Wake me up when someone renders a coin in emacs, that would have infinite hack value.
Heads: RMS
Tails: RIAA
Official Link (Score:1)
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It's easy! Just ask SCO! (Score:2)
Well, it worked for them?
The Designer's fruit, not his tools (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Dupes are good (Score:1)
What the hell (Score:1)
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There are dupes and there are dupes (Score:2)
The dupes are the ones reading the dupe.
Or responding to it, like this one.
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Thank you for sharing your basement world view.
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How can you be sure, if you never get out?
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Well it isn't full of water.
P.S. Where's your bike?
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That's incorrect. I've met several who could speak perfectly good English.
Dutchmen, that is.
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