[email protected] (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: > It's that scribe from the fjords again. Today I took delivery of my > The Book of PF 3rd edition author copies, and I blogged about it: > http://bsdly.blogspot.no/2014/10/the-book-of-pf-3rd-edition-is-here.html
On OpenBSD 5.6 release day, auction status after one week is this (see [1] for details): A total of 20 bids, with the current high bid at US $1,009.99. The amount is certainly in the comfortable zone for me, and with three days to go it's entirely possible that this auction will indeed bring in more money than Michael Lucas' Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd edition auction[2]. If that happens I'll be very pleased, but regardless of the final amount I hope the successful bidder will allow me to publish their name and that the unsuccessful bidders will make direct donations to the OpenBSD Foundation equal to or larger than the amount of their highest bid. One other point worth considering is that with both Michael Lucas and me setting up these auctions, we have essentially created a new rule: If you write an OpenBSD book, you are morally obliged to auction off the first signed copy for the benefit of the project. That should not be seen as a barrier to entry, rather the opposite. Now enjoy the weekend and the newly arrived OpenBSD 5.6 release, I'll be back with useful updates as soon as I have them. - Peter [1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Book-of-PF-3rd-ed-signed-by-the-author-First-Copy-signed-/321563281902? [2] http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1646 -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
