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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: davidnix71 on 13 February 2009, 03:26

Title: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: davidnix71 on 13 February 2009, 03:26: Unix Time.
http://www.1234567890day.com/ (http://www.1234567890day.com/)
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: bob_v5 on 13 February 2009, 04:18: I finnish my glass to 1234567890,
not sure how the time translates so i drink now.
happy 1234567890!
(emptys glass)
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: worker201 on 13 February 2009, 09:43: How weird:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126101760022 (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126101760022)

"Unix shirts preferred, generic geek shirts suitable and MSFT geek shirts tolerated"

I'm wearing my Slackware shirt today, so if I go, I'll have to choose from the Firefox, Thunderbird or Helvetica shirts.
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: Lead Head on 14 February 2009, 01:19: I sadly do not have any tech related shirts - or is that a good thing?
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: worker201 on 14 February 2009, 08:02: One of the easiest ways to support free and/or open source software is to buy a shirt. You hand the developer a few dollars, and then market with your chest for a couple years. You were going to wear a shirt anyway, right? Might as well support a worthy cause in the process.
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: Lead Head on 14 February 2009, 17:31: Interesting, I thought that most shirts didn't do anything for profit for the developers. I just assumed the company actually selling the shirts got 100% of any profits
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: worker201 on 15 February 2009, 07:26: Depends on the setup. The Mozilla store is run by Mozilla, so the cost of a Firefox t-shirt is probably half product cost and half Mozilla profit. Cafe Press, a major company that you can use to print and sell your shirts, takes its wholesale cut and leaves whatever is left to the creator. And even in the case of logo licensing, the developer gets license fees from the clothing producer. No brand gets tossed around for free.

Unbranded products, on the other hand, are designed and sold by a t-shirt company. When you buy a shirt from ThinkGeek (for example), all profits go to ThinkGeek. While some of the shirts they sell are pretty cool and way geeky, there's no developer support behind them. So that's not quite what I was talking about.

An example where some of your clothing dollars help fund development:
http://redhat.brandfuelstores.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1 (http://redhat.brandfuelstores.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1)
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: adiment on 16 February 2009, 18:40: Quote from: worker201 on 13 February 2009, 09:43
How weird:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126101760022 (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126101760022)

"Unix shirts preferred, generic geek shirts suitable and MSFT geek shirts tolerated"

I'm wearing my Slackware shirt today, so if I go, I'll have to choose from the Firefox, Thunderbird or Helvetica shirts.

Curious about the Helvetica shirts. Any links?
Title: Re: Party tomorrow likes it's 1234567890
Post by: worker201 on 17 February 2009, 02:47: http://www.buyolympia.com/q/Item=ampersand_helvetica (http://www.buyolympia.com/q/Item=ampersand_helvetica)

I bought mine a month or so ago. Futura, Garamond, and Chicago also available.