Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

technewsworld.com - Prepare for the Shared Software Tidal Wave

"I was poor. I was desperate. I wanted to be on this bandwagon of this
Internet thing, and I wanted to find a business that wouldn't require large
amounts of bandwidth or large amounts of capital. The key was Linux. It
was Linux that let me connect to the Net so I could start soaking up this
knowledge," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux.

[Ike]

computerworld: Linux guru calls for coordinated drive on open source desktop

"Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is urging the three large desktop
projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org to agree on a common and
regular release cycle."

[Ike]

Ars at Ubuntu Live: Mark Shuttleworth's keynote

"The Ubuntu Live conference began yesterday in Portland Oregon with Mark
Shuttleworth's keynote presentation. Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu project's
charismatic leader, discussed a wide variety of topics relating to Canonical's
business prospects and the future of the Ubuntu Linux distribution."

[Ike]

lifehacker - Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth on Productivity and Linux

"Founder of Ubuntu Linux Mark Shuttleworth took time out of his busy schedule
to talk with us about email, productivity, travel, web applications, Ubuntu, free
software and much more. We asked Shuttleworth what you wanted to know and
he gave us the full scoop."

[delovski]

Dr. Shuttleworth or; How we learned to stop worrying and love Open Source

"Both Russia and Macedonia have recently announced huge Ubuntu initiatives.
While the revenue to Canonical might not be incredibly significant, the users
are. Developers need installed users to justify deployment on a platform.

Widespread government adoption coupled with Dell's Ubuntu consumer initia-
tives are just two more points which bode well for attracting more commercial
software to a worthy platform."

[Ike]

guardian.co.uk - Linux is a platform for people, not just specialists

TG: What are the implications of choosing that name?

MS: That this is a platform for people. Linux has come from a tradition of
being a platform for specialists. We articulated the challenge for us very
clearly in our name: "Let's make this something that we can proudly give
out to people who are not passionate about technology."

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techworld - Linux should rival Apple, urges Ubuntu founder

"The challenge for us is to figure out how to deliver something which is crisp
and clean, without sacrificing the community process."