Drug Dealers vs. Software Developers
Posted by admin on Oct 1, 2007
| DRUG DEALERS | SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS |
| Refer to their clients as “users” | Refer to their clients as “users” |
| “The first one’s free!” | “Download a free trial version” |
| Have important South-East Asian connections | Have important South-East Asian connections |
| Strange jargon: “Stick”, “Rock”, “Wrap”, “E”, “Stash”, “Drive By |
Strange jargon: “SCSI”, “RTFM”, “Packet”, “C”, |
| Stick | SCSI |
| Rock | RTFM |
| Wrap | Packet |
| E | C |
| Stash | Cache |
| Drive By | CTRL-ALT-DEL |
| Hit (LSD) | Hit (WWW) |
| Source | Source-code |
| The Pigs | Microsoft |
| Realize that there’s tons of cash in the 14 to 25 year old market. | Realize that there’s tons of cash in the 14 to 25 year old market. |
| Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn’t work they want to kill you. | Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn’t work they want to kill you. |
| Job is assisted by the industry producing new, more potent product. | Job is assisted by the industry producing new, more potent product. |
| When things go wrong, a “fix” is just a phone call away but may be expensive. | When things go wrong, a “fix” is just a phone call away but may be expensive. |
| A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teenagers. | A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teenagers. |
| Their product causes unhealthy addictions. | Doom, Quake, SimCity, Duke Nukem 3D, ‘Nuff said |
| Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. | Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! |