Go Open - Mark Shuttleworth Full Interview

The unedited version of the interview with Mark Shuttleworth.

Mark was born and raised in South Africa, and studied finance and
information technology at the University of Cape Town. He went on to found
Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and internet privacy,
developed using Open Source software. He sold Thawte to the American company
VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth
Foundation. In April 2002 Mark became the first African in space, as a cosmonaut
member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station.
Mark maintains that 'If we are to lift Africa from her current circumstances,
we will need a generation of learners that are gifted with curiosity about
the world in which they live, and the tools to understand and shape that world'.
With this in mind he and his Foundation have invested in projects such as
TuxLabs, HIP2B2, The School Tool Project (to develop a common global school
administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source
licence)and The Ubuntu Project, a community project with participation from
many volunteers, sponsored by Canonical Ltd.


Interviewed by Marc Chase

Category:

Science & Technology

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• ubuntu
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[My711good]

smart guy I use Ubuntu and its great i hope he wins the battle agenst Microsoft :D

[irock292]

This man is a legend

[TheBaje2011]

the dudes right for when i buy my next computer linux is going to be on it for sure, tho i will dual-boot, until linux becomes a more stable gaming platform i will still have windows. windows for games linux for everything else. typed using ubuntu 11.04

[youdanieltube]

@Eikus89 You're wrong about that; quantity is not a criterium; the only place where Linux clearly dominates the landscape is supercomputers; webhosting companies can use it as a server; other than that, its pretty useless; big companies, government, stock exchange, use commercial enterprise unix or vms solutions, mainframes, big iron; they cost a lot more and not every body can afford them; but when it really counts, linux is (still) useless; as client or server

[Eikus89]

@youdanieltube What will happen in the future is never certain and therefore I wouldn't say that it's farfetched that Linux will grow bigger on the desktop market. What he means by "the server battle is allready over" is that aproximately 60-70% of all servers are Linux based. So the facts are on his side. Check out Wikipedias page on "Usage share of operating systems" if you don't believe me.

[elfirebrand]

this dude is a business genius

[blvab]

now with long hair LOL

[youdanieltube]

man, i love linux and even ubuntu, but this interview is full of BS :)) what do you mean, "the desktop will be open source and the server battle is already over" LOL this is such major BS; Mark, you either have no idea, or you are just ignoring the facts :) nough said

[Anonomys246]

cool I use Ubuntu too, it's great. :)

[toad1e]

Watching this on my first night running Karmic and 549 days of running nothing but Ubuntu. Love it!

[silvernode]

For example Arch Linux has an up to date version of ALSA. The latest version allows multiple programs to use sound simultaneously including Skype. This is a feature you will not see in Ubuntu until 9.10 (hopefully). In my opinion this feature is important to Windows users who switch to Ubuntu. Something I already enjoy in Arch Linux.