Drug Dealers vs. Software Developers

Got this from a friend.

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 Southeast Asian connections (to help move the stuff)	Have important Southeast Asian connections (to help debug the code)
Strange jargon: stick, rock, dime bag	Strange jargon: SCSI, ISDN, VLSI
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
Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent mixes	Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more faster machines
Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers	Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists
Their product causes unhealthy addictions	DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. Nuff said
well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you	Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!
Get caught and spend the rest of your life in a cell.	You anyway are spending your life in a cell! Have fun!