“Journalists”, listen to me and listen hard. Something written on a public wiki and marked as “braindump” is *not* fact.
News articles on Linux Today and PC Pro stated (as fact) that “The makers of Ubuntu Linux are planning to develop an equivalent to Apple’s .Mac service.”
This is not true. I’ll tell you why I know this isn’t true, because I *wrote* most of that frelling wiki page *myself* and I have nothing to do with Ubuntu or Canonical short of being a user of their products. It is not officially endorsed in any way and is clearly marked as a “brain dump” on the corresponding launchpad page.
The articles stated that the proposed name, “Ubuntu.Mac” is a name which Apple’s lawyers are unlikely to allow to stand. I actually put a comment on the page suggesting that it be moved to wiki.ubuntu.com/TribeLife (the actual suggested name for the service), but someone kindly removed my comment yesterday.
Journalists – *think* before you write something, check your sources.
Rant over.