How To Make Money With Free Software 81
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."
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.
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I thought you could only win once? (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously he's time traveling and winning again!
-- Dave
Re:Again? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Duuuupe (Score:3, Funny)
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.
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!
Re:Again? (Score:3, Funny)
This article was on here a couple of days ago. DUPE!
Given the subject of the article, "counterfeit" would be a more appropriate term.
could he do it in emacs? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So will the coins be open source? (Score:3, Funny)
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.