Drug Dealers: "The first one's free!"
Software Developers: "Download a free trial version..."
Drug Dealers: Have important South-East Asian connections (to help
move the stuff).
Software Developers: Have important South-East Asian connections
(to help debug the code).
Drug Dealers: Strange jargon: "Stick," "Rock," "Dime bag," "E."
Software Developers: Strange jargon: "SCSI," "RTFM," "Java,"
"ISDN."
Drug Dealers: Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
Software Developers: Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14-
to 25-year-old market.
Drug Dealers: Job is assisted by the industry producing newer,
more potent mixes.
Software Developers: Job is assisted by the industry producing
newer, faster machines.
Drug Dealers: Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers.
Software Developers: Often seen in the company of marketing people
and venture capitalists.
Drug Dealers: Their product causes unhealthy addictions.
Software Developers: Doom, Quake, SimCity, Duke Nukem 3D... 'Nuff
said?
Drug Dealers: Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie
stars who depend on you.
Software Developers: Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!