- This Coding Horror article talks about garbage collection and happens to mention an entertaining common BSD function in shutdown.c: die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog()
- The DCBSDCon Blog has some notes on the facilities – there will be wireless, and Jason Dixon will be giving his “BSD Is Dying” talk, too.
- An hour of Marshall Kirk McKusick’s FreeBSD kernel class (based on his book) is available now on Youtube. (via) Plus, more videos on other open source topics at the FOSSLC. (via)
- This new column on GameSetWatch, The Amateur, titled “Why You Should Pay for Free“, gets into free software (like BSD) from a giveaway gaming point of view (not like BSD). It’s an interesting take.
- ZangbandTK: Confessions of a Dungeon Hack is a new Rock, Paper, Shotgun article about playing a tiled roguelike, and quite enjoyable to read. Check the comments for some interesting links.
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Seems to be a problem with the “Why You Should Pay for Free” link.
My bad; fixed.
I have been buying (or donating in most cases) only free virtual stuff/data since years. Not only software, but also music and videos.
The last need-to-buy thing I bought was more than seven years ago, if you don’t count an album I bought on magnatune, which is sort of a mix between have-to-buy and get-for-free.
The nice thing about this is, you don’t get a “I should have spent that money for something else” feeling.
Hmm… maybe something like that could also work with physical stuff, but that’s possibly much harder.
I guess a lot of people will start to pay for for-free stuff, because of things like DRM and very evil EULAs. First of all more people need to write about this, because it makes people think about doing something similar. A lot of people are simply not aware about all that.
But hey, Wikipedia and Mozilla have really big foundations, so it seems, like this stuff really works :)