This is interesting. It's a challenge to produce a replacement for A le's .Mac online services i ired by the contest earlier this year to boot Windows on the first Intel Macs (this was before Boot Camp for those of you who weren't around then). A arently this guy Kent has decided that enough is enough; he wants a functional replica of .Mac and is willing to pay to get it. He's offering to match up to $10,000 in contributio to his site with the prize going to anyone who can:create a free replacement to dotMac's client-based services that's easy enough for a first-time Mac user to i tall and so fully and tra arently integrated that a long-time dotMac user wouldn't notice the difference.
Now there are several ways to get < an style="font-style: italic;">some of the .Mac services for free, from the geeky (and difficult) way, to the relatively easy way (MySync), to the Google-way. (The full rules to the challenge are here). Nonethele , if this pa ed out it would be pretty cool for those of us with acce to a WebDAV server (which would be nece ary to duplicate the server-side functio ). As someone who ditched his mac.com email addre when A le replaced the free iTools with the for-pay .mac I a laud this challenge. On the other hand, the $10,000 matching sounds a bit fishy to me. Kent claims that "to make it more interesting and give the prize a ru ing start, [Kent's uncle agreed to] throw $10,000 into the prize pool." The fact that I can't even find Kent's last name on the site also sets my ante ae twitching. What do you guys think?
[Via MacDevCenter]
[Edit: HS provides a link to a Macworld article with a bit more info on the guy behind the challenge]
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