We're not revealing Fake Steve

What an incredible NON-story this whole thing is. And TUAW's descent into total mediocrity continues ...

This is like the people who still have the Kerry-Edwards '04 bumper stickers on their cars...

SPOILER ALERT!! SPOILER ALERT!!

Fake Steve Jobs is really Voldemort.

Dave, I agreed with you about it being better to not know, until I saw who it really was, and what people have dug up on him. His anti-open source software remarks take on a whole new slant now.

It's just a blog, folks--enjoyable read at that. I hope he doesn't stop just because he's been outed.

Um.. is this right then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_Steve_Jobs

Wow, my comment was deleted for the second time. What do you have to hide, David?

This is one of the oddest "editorial decisions" I have ever seen. Defending it while FSJ was still anonymous is one thing, but he is OFFICIALLY MADE PUBLIC NOW. How can this: a) possibly matter and b) even be realistically maintained? It makes no sense.

Further to that, FSJ's identity (which I won't reveal here, assuming that TUAW is deleting posts that do so) has nothing to do with enjoying the column. It's the quality of writing that does.

What a weird, weird website TUAW is.

+100 for this editorial decision. I have no desire to know who Fake Steve is and thank TUAW for respecting the sentiment.

Holy shit, first Cinematical and now TUAW. Is there something going on at Weblogs/Blogsmith that everyone's flying off the handle?

This is a blog, not a news site. The fact that people - including the bloggers themselves - can express an opinion, get emotional on a topic and even use blue language is, to me, part of the sites' appeal as opposed to something that needs to be reported to higher ups at AOL.

David, all I can tell you is, while I agree that maybe this post wasn't the most thought-out thing in the world, I still love ya man. Rock on.