| 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," "E". | Strange jargon: "SCSI," "RTFM,", "Java," "ISDN". | |
| 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 industry's producing newer, faster machines. | |
| Often seen in the company of of pimps and hustlers. | Often seen in the company marketing people and venture capitalists. | |
| Their product causes unhealthy addictions. | DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem. Nuff said. | |
| Do your job well, and you can sleep with movie stars who depend on you. | Do your job well and you'll have time left over to download some sexy .mpg, .avi, .mov, .jgp, .gif's | |
| Customers in trouble are given NO ASSISTANCE. | Customers in trouble are told to call TECH SUPPORT. | |
| No Refunds! No Returns! | No Refunds! No Returns! |