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'Linux is a platform for people, not just specialists'
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| In 1999, the South African-born Mark Shuttleworth sold his internet company,
| Thawte, which provided digital certificates for websites, for more than $500m
| (£254m). After spending $20m on a trip into space, he started the Ubuntu
| project - named after an African word meaning "Humanity to others", or "I am
| what I am because of who we all are" - which has since become the most
| popular GNU/Linux distribution.
|
| [...]
|
| TG: Will you be coming out with a tailored version of Ubuntu for the
| ultraportable sector?
|
| MS We're announcing it in the first week of June. It's called the Netbook
| Remix. We're working with Intel, which produces chips custom-made for this
| sector.
|
| TG: Do you think that GNU/Linux will ever become a significant force on the
| desktop?
|
| MS I think that depends on how people define a desktop. If people continue to
| define a desktop as the thing that they run Microsoft Word on, then Windows
| will retain its position. My sense, though, is that people are increasingly
| defining the desktop as the thing that they get access to the internet from.
| In that case, there's a real possibility that we're able to shift people onto
| different platforms. I think it's the emergence of the internet as the killer
| application, the thing that describes what you want from the computer, that
| opens the door to us.
|
| TG: Recently you publicly criticised the ISO for the way the way it handled
| the voting on Microsoft's OOXML; how seriously do you think ISO's credibility
| has been damaged by that episode?
|
| MS Very seriously [for] anybody who is passionate about open standards. The
| ISO process has traditionally worked very well; it's quite an academic,
| considered process, but it really wasn't designed to handle a case with very,
| very vigorous corporate lobbying and an enormous amount of money being spent
| to try to get a particular outcome. And with hindsight, there were a number
| of very serious flaws in the process.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/22/internet.software
MS = Mark Shuttleworth in the above.
Recent:
Full Exclusive Mark Shuttleworth Video Interview Now Available
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/full_exclusive_mark_shuttlewor.html?CMP=OTC-6YE827253101&ATT=Full+Exclusive+Mark+Shuttleworth+Video+Interview+Now+Available
http://tinyurl.com/6orupx
Spotlight on FOSS: An Interview with Mark Shuttleworth
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| Richard Stallman has agreed to be our next interview, although we had meet
| some conditions, which shouldn't surprise anyone that follows him. Stay tuned
| for more information on that interview, but feel free to contact us with
| questions you would like us to ask him.
|
| Because Richard Stallman played a significant role in the development of
| Emacs, we will be discussing Emacs as our Software Spotlight for that
| episode.
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/04/15/an-interview-with-mark-shuttleworth.html?page=2
Related:
Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community
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| "That's extortion and we should call it what it is," he said. "To say, as
| [Microsoft CEO Steve] Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet
| liability, that's just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that
| game. On the other side, if Microsoft is concerned about its intellectual
| property, there is no one in the free software community that wants to
| violate anyone's IP. Disclose the patents and we'll fix the code.
| Alternatively, move on."
|
| Microsoft has said it does disclose which patents are being violated, but
| only in one-on-one conversations with vendors. To Shuttleworth, that is not
| disclosure, because patents are public documents.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2167193,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
[Mark Shuttleworth Interview]
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| Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won't
| say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: "It's an
| unsafe neighbourhood, why don't you pay me 20 bucks and I'll make
| sure you're okay," that's illegal. It's racketeering. What Microsoft
| is doing with intellectual property is exactly the same. It's a great
| company and I have great admiration for it, but this was not a
| well considered position.
|
| So you wouldn't do a deal?
|
| No, absolutely not. But the time will come when the folks at
| Microsoft who have a clear vision for the company as a participant
| in this community, rather than as a hostile antagonist, will win.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672
Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey
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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their
| Linux distribution of choice.
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html
Survey: Desktop Linux use grows
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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux,
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users
| in the past year.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html
Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
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| For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey
| compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey.
|
| [...]
|
| In those businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, 39.5
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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