The Linux Evangelist: How to a postal card a proprietary Windows software application
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Make a “iPhone DVD Ripper”. Integrate GPL software illegally in it because that makes you badass. No an individual buys software anyway.
Include lots of spyware in said pertinence. Spam said iPhone DVD Ripper EVERYWHERE. SPAM SPAM SPAM. Give up. SPAM Stackoverflow too!Fail anyway because Dick knows recompense Dick Handbrake (EVIL OPEN SOURCE). Become a “database administrator” recompense an indemnity bordello.
Kill yourself.