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Shuttleworth distances himself from Microsoft
News Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's chief executive, wrote in a blog that Canonical has declined to talk to Microsoft about any agreement that provides legal protection to Ubuntu users related to "unspecified patents".
[June 19, 2007, 19:27]
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a new platform closely modelled on it, will emerge as the leading cloud standard, Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has predicted. Shuttleworth told delegates at a BT open-source event on Monday that to emerge as...
[October 5, 2009, 17:17]
Shuttleworth defends Firefox licence in Ubuntu
News Mark Shuttleworth, whose company, Canonical, funds the Ubuntu operating system, has stepped in to try to resolve a dispute on Ubuntu developer's forum Launchpad. Shuttleworth has claimed that the EULA's inclusion had been requested for trademarking...
[September 15, 2008, 16:22]
Shuttleworth: Karmic Koala to make cloud 'dance'
News Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth introduced Karmic Koala on Friday, in a post on the Ubuntu site. A tool called 'Ubuntu-vmbuilder' already makes it possible to create a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) — the image that is uploaded onto Amazon's...
[February 23, 2009, 12:52]
Shuttleworth talks up app launcher for 'netbooks'
News Mark Shuttleworth, who runs Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, Canonical, said the organisation's OEM team developed the launcher after being approached by a number of OEMs who want to sell netbooks based on Ubuntu.
[June 10, 2008, 16:39]
Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift
News The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and interaction to lead Canonical's work on usability and to contribute to other free and open-source desktop-environment projects, including Gnome and KDE, Mark...
[September 11, 2008, 16:23]
CNET Networks UK award winner: Mark Shuttleworth
News The winner of IT Community Hero of the Year at the 2008 CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards was Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Foundation. Mark Shuttleworth is the bridge between open source's activist heart and the needs of users...
[September 24, 2008, 7:40]
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]
'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]
Ubuntu goes after the Lynx effect
News Ubuntu patron and founder Mark Shuttleworth has detailed plans for the distribution's April 2010 release, code-named Lucid Lynx. In a video message to attendees of UbuCon Atlanta, Shuttleworth said that 10.04 would be based on the Gnome 2.0 desktop...
[September 21, 2009, 9:00]
Ubuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' due on Thursday
News Canonical will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday, chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said on Monday; but the company's profitability isn't on such a fast track. Shuttleworth, who got rich by selling his last start...
[October 28, 2008, 7:57]
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 creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
News The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code.
[June 30, 2008, 16:20]
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]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog Comment Shuttleworth personally $10m over the last four years, suggesting annual losses of approximately $2.5m". The truth is that Mark Shuttleworth has placed $10-million into a public trust called the Ubuntu Foundation.
[December 11, 2008, 17:24]
South African TV show evangelises open source
News The television show, called Go_Open, has been produced with the help of the Shuttleworth Foundation, which promotes the use of open-source software in South African schools. Thomas Black, a programme manager at the Shuttleworth Foundation who...
[November 24, 2004, 14:20]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been a member of the Linux Foundation board since early 2007. However, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth being on the Linux Foundation board may prompt Red Hat to raise its profile within the Linux...
[August 19, 2008, 12:35]
Microsoft may become 'major opponent of patents'
News Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, said that although Microsoft is seen as being very pro-patent at the moment, if every other software maker enforced its...
[October 6, 2005, 13:35]
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]
