An interview with Mark Shuttleworth

July 8, 2010  |  Interviews, Linux, Mobile, Social Networking and Bookmarking  |  Share  | 

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Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS is a major release of the operating system Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical first released in 2004. In this interview with Simon Dingle Shuttleworth discusses the significance of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, competitor operating systems, the move to cloud services, open source advocacy and how it has changed in recent years, application distribution, social networking, smartphones and other topics.

Shuttleworth is a South African philanthropist and internet entrepreneur who started the company Thawte in 1995 and went on to sell it to Verisign at the turn of the century in a US$575 million deal. He then became the second ever self-funded civilian astronaut traveling to the international space station as a member of the Soyuz TM-34/TM-33 missions. Upon his return to earth Mark formed the Shuttleworth Foundation and Canonical.

Simon Dingle recently authored a chapter on Mark Shuttleworth for the book South Africa’s Greatest Entrepreneurs. The publication will be available in September 2010.

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  • http://twitter.com/thewomble_za Greg Mahlknecht

    Apple usually gets the credit for inventing the App store concept, but Steam was way ahead of the curve here and was released 5 years before Apple's, and before the first version of Ubuntu. It proves that app stores work amazingly well in a desktop environment. I did a quick calculation based on Steam's content server stats, and a conservative estimate based on 1 DVD per game, is 10 million games sales per month (!!). I always thought it'd be a great story to investigate these sales and stats and how they compare to PC retail sales and total console game sales.

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    Sigh…how does one forget how to dream?

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