[$] Poker and FOSS
The intersection of games with free and open-source software (FOSS) was the
topic of a
miniconf on the first day of this year's linux.conf.au, which was held January
13-17 in Gold Coast, Australia. As part of the miniconf, Bradley M. Kuhn
gave a talk that was well outside of his normal conference-talk fare:
the game of poker and its relationship to FOSS. It turns out that he did
some side work on a FOSS-based poker site along the way, which failed by
most measures, but there was also an element of success to the project.
The time for a successful FOSS poker project likely has passed at this
point, but there are some lessons to be learned from the journey.