Go Open - Mark Shuttleworth Interview

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.

Presented by Marc Chase

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[Doggyduu]

Ubuntu Linux is a fantastic Open Source System... Windows Sucks, i hate Microfrost (XD) and Bill Gay...

[silvernode]

Although I am excited that ubuntu is making open source software (in this case Linux)more and more popular. Although I don't prefer to use ubuntu as my linux OS, I can't help but be thankful it exists.

[r3bol]

Thanks for everything you've done for Linux, Mark.

[AngryRantingNerd]

Mark Shuttleworth's hair in the video looks like Gene Hunt's.

[CastroTioBueno]

THANKS HEAVEN he doesn't have now that awful haircut

[juju6182]

I have a Dell inspiron 1525 had numerous problems with the stock Vista SP1 AND sp2 my HD crashed, put LINUX MINT 8 on a SUPPOSEDLY unusable(by microsoft standards)HD 2 months ago and have never been happier.

[Testingpointer1]

i dont think he's fortunate,..

i think he's just really that skillful thats why he achieve that awesome thing..

so impressive...

[enos76]

CD shipping has a cost for the issuer.

If you use a broadband connection, download the CD or DVD image and then check it with a proper program (e.g. MD5) before burning it at low speeds.

[CamiloSanchez1979]

how can we convince them to go open source..?

[tipoomaster]

Just requested a Live CD, the one i burned myself didnt work (probably because of the download accelerator i used). Its pretty sweet that you dont even have to pay shipping!

[OhMymy]

He's a fortunate man!