To me, it's more like he made money using his superior design skills. Free software is just assisting him. He would also have made money(lesser probably) if he used proprietary software.
XP On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Ng Pheng Siong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > More accurately, "How to make money using free software written by others." > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Soh Kam Yung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> 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. In the end I had to collaborate closely on location >> together with the technicians of the Royal Dutch Mint (coin factory). >> So all the last bits were done on my Asus Eee PC. (I am still >> wondering why Asus doesn't offer Ubuntu on its netbooks.) >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > >
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