The notMac challenge is a project to raise a bounty of $10,000 to be used as a prize for anyone who can come up with an open-source replacement for Apple’s .Mac service.
The goal of the notMac Challenge is to create the incentive for someone to make an alternative dotMac solution available for the general public. Since this is something that could benefit a large number of people in the Mac community, I figure what better way to create that incentive than to invite anyone interested to contribute to the reward.
To make the stakes even richer, I’ll match every contribution up to a total of $10,000. So, if you contribute $100, I’ll double it for a total of $200. Hopefully, in a short amount of time, the prize pool will be large enough to encourage someone out there to liberate the less technically literate of us from the obligation to pay Apple $99 a year.
It’s a worthy cause to which I probably will be contributing myself. Those technically inclined and with a server to spare might want to consider the instructions in Do It Yourself .Mac as a starting point.