[$] Poker and FOSS

The intersection of games with free and open-source software (FOSS) was thetopic of aminiconf on the first day of this year's linux.conf.au, which was held January13-17 in Gold Coast, Australia. As part of the miniconf, Bradley M. Kuhngave 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 didsome side work on a FOSS-based poker site along the way, which failed bymost measures, but there was also an element of success to the project.The time for a successful FOSS poker project likely has passed at thispoint, but there are some lessons to be learned from the journey.