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Wikipedia, Ubuntu Founders Back 'open Education'
News Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet. The scheme is the result of a meeting of 30 open-education leaders in Cape Town, organised by...
[January 22, 2008, 16:39]
Ubuntu Development Hits Founder In The Pocket
News Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has admitted that he spends a significant sum of his own money developing the Linux distribution. Shuttleworth added that he is unconcerned about the cost, as Linux helped him make his money.
[May 9, 2006, 16:40]
'Intrepid Ibex' Ubuntu To Focus On Mobile Web Access
News Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has revealed the name of the version of Ubuntu, due in October: "Intrepid Ibex". Version 8.10 of Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, will focus on user accessibility, wrote Shuttleworth in an email announcement.
[February 21, 2008, 11:59]
Microsoft: Africa Doesn't Need Free Software
Talkback Viva Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu Linux! To this stupid declaration I just say:
[October 21, 2005, 13:21]
Ubuntu Update Hit By Six-week Delay
News New versions of Ubuntu Linux have been released at a steady six-month intervals, but project founder Mark Shuttleworth is considering a six-week delay to improve the reliability of an important new version.
[March 14, 2006, 9:05]
Ubuntu Coming Soon To Sun's Niagara
News Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (long-term support) will feature support for the T1000 and T2000 servers, which use the UltraSparc T1 processor formerly known as Niagara, said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical.
[May 30, 2006, 8:50]
Ubuntu's Latest Linux Will Help Debug Crashes
News Feisty Fawn, also known as version 7.04, comes with software that can send debugging information to help programmers track down the problems that cause applications to crash, Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said in an interview.
[April 12, 2007, 8:38]
Ubuntu Backer Seeks Open-source Collaboration
News Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth believes broader use could help marshal free and open-source software forces more effectively against Microsoft. Microsoft has an efficient core infrastructure that allows developers from one part of the...
[April 10, 2007, 12:00]
Ubuntu Gets More Virtualisation-friendly
News Both have landed very nicely in this release," said Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth. The Gibbon variant will take an "ultra-orthodox view of licensing: no firmware, drivers, imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not...
[April 16, 2007, 15:36]
XP Starter Edition Reaches Africa
News But Mark Shuttleworth, a South African open source advocate and the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that Microsoft is still playing catch-up with the achievements of open source.
[May 5, 2006, 12:15]
Mozilla Offers $500 Bug Bounty
News Linux software maker Linspire and Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth funded the new initiative, dubbed the Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program. Linspire seeded the programme with $5,000, and Shuttleworth promised to match the first $5,000 in...
[August 3, 2004, 11:00]
Ubuntu Lets Loose 'Feisty Fawn'
News We have been absolutely swamped with hits to the website and the mirrors," Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said in a conference call. Feisty Fawn features virtualisation support and a new crash-reporting tool to aid debugging, but not...
[April 20, 2007, 15:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Windows Genuine Advantage is going to drive more people to open source than any initiative Novell or Mark Shuttleworth could think up. Even if you don't agree that the existence of spyware is the mark of a poorly designed operating system — a...
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
Ubuntu Chief Sees Benefits In Oracle Linux
News It's becoming more and more of a commodity," Mark Shuttleworth, founder and chief executive of Ubuntu developer Canonical, told ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, on Friday. Shuttleworth, speaking on the eve of the Oracle OpenWorld conference...
[October 23, 2006, 9:35]
Maybe They Want Choice! Maybe They Don't Want Ubuntu!
Talkback Mark Shuttleworth is a monopoly want-to-be. Perhaps They Want Choice! Maybe They Don't Want Ubuntu! As much as the current popularity of Unbuntu is making it the flavor of the day, many of us in the Free Software community don't want a commercial...
[August 1, 2007, 10:41]
Canonical Releases Distributed VCS
News Distributed software engineering is not limited to the open-source world: corporate and proprietary software development is increasingly done by teams that span companies, continents and time zones and need the ability to manage their work in an...
[December 17, 2007, 16:17]
Canonical Goes 'edgy' With Latest Ubuntu
News Or, 'If you've got this (service), you've got access to this hardware, so fire up that kind of infrastructure,'" chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said. Canonical plans to endow every second or third version with long-term support, Shuttleworth said.
[October 26, 2006, 9:05]
Mandriva Latest To Spurn Microsoft
News His words echoed those of Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution. A promise by Microsoft not to sue for infringement of unspecified patents has no value at all and is not worth paying for… people who pay...
[June 22, 2007, 11:39]
Vista Slow To Unfold
Leader If you're Mark Shuttleworth, an initial investment of $10m creates Ubuntu. How much does software cost? If you're Microsoft, then you spend 100 times as much over the lifetime of XP just in marketing, and 600 times as much building Vista — followed...
[May 15, 2007, 18:19]
Sun Flirts With Ubuntu
News In turn, Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth appeared on stage in San Francisco during Schwartz's opening keynote at JavaOne to endorse Java. Ubuntu Linux got a ringing endorsement from Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz at JavaOne on Tuesday.
[May 17, 2006, 10:45]
