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+-   How to make money with free software-> on Sunday November 02 2008, @06:30PM bmsleight

Submitted by bmsleight on Sunday November 02 2008, @06:30PM
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bmsleight writes "The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition not to design a building, but the new 5 euro commemorative coin with the theme 'Netherlands and Architecture'. The winning design made with 100% with free software, mainly Python. The design is amazing, the Queens head is made up of names of the architects based upon the occurrences in a yahoo searches. In the end the artist Stani Michiels had to collaborate closely on location together with the technicians of the Royal Dutch Mint (coin factory). So all the last bits were done his Asus Eee PC, which took 30 seconds instead of 3 seconds to generate a whole coin. So soon 350.000 Dutch people will use the fruits of free software."
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