You may not have known but there are startling similarities between those who push drugs and those who push software (wait, so Bill Gates=Drug Lord? Yup!).
| 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 (to help move the stuff) | Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code) |
| Strange jargon: "Stick," "Rock,"Dime bag" |
Strange jargon: "SCSI," "Byte," "Java," "ISDN" |
| "Stash" | "cache" |
| "Hit (LSD)" | "Hit (WWW)" |
| "Source" | "Source Code" |
| Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year- old market. | Ditto |
| Job is assisted by the industry's producing a newer, more potent product. | Ditto |
| When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away but may be expensive. | Ditto |
| A lot of successful people getting rich in this industry while still teenagers. | Ditto |
| Their product causes unhealthy addictions. | DOOM. Quake. SimCity, duke Nukem 3D. 'Nuff said. |
| Often seen with pimps and hustlers. | Often seen with marketing people and venture capitalists. |
| Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. | Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! |