Goodbye Goobuntu, We Hardly Knew Ye

Mark Shuttleworth has finally put the ridiculous Goobuntu rumour out of its misery. The idea that Google might come out with an operating system - even one based on the very-wonderful Ubuntu - was just so crazy that I really find hard to understand why everyone - especially the blogosphere - swallowed it.

There is absolutely no fit between the commoditised operating systems market and the core competencies of Google - even if Google itself depends on GNU/Linux to keep its server farms humming. There is a world of difference between using something, and trying to sell it to everybody and their dog.