In the world of open source, there are all kinds of interesting differences. For the Euro 2008 finals, Spain versus Germany, our international open source community is, of course, interested in the outcome. And, with sports comes gambling. But, in this case, the bet was over who would take care of an outstanding list of to-do items on an open source project — in a timely fashion (over the next week)! So, the game is over, and the person who bet on Spain will certainly be happy to watch the person who bet on Germany clean up the to-do list over the next week. And, in these high-tech days, the games are watched on p2p television and an IRC bot reports all the latest scores to the IRC channel. It is also worth mentioning that an open source alternative to Betfair has been in the news lately: Smarkets! Now you can go play your favorite open source soccer/football game, like Eat the Whistle. These types of things are the best parts of the new world of globalization!