On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 09:23:35PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > [email protected] (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: > 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].
Bah! Not a chance. If by some bizarre failure of natural law that should happen, I'll be compelled to write an OpenBSD book next year to auction off. Just so MY next auction can CRUSH HANSTEEN'S ABSURD FLUKE OF LUCK AND RESTORE THE NATURAL ORDER. I mean, the footnotes in BoPF3 all contain actual *facts* -- how lame is that? > 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. Only if you want to be one of the cool kids. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - [email protected], Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/
