Sunday, June 10, 2007




Ubuntu and Mark Shuttle "Worth"

I have been using Ubuntu for the past 1 year or so...I still remember it wus a June evening .When i came back from Colege i found the sealed package from Canonical..yeah all da way from other side of the world. It was really a cool experience, to receive something which i consider precious.

Mark Shuttleworth was a name that I had just heard of but soon after I came to know about more of him (Yeah the "freak" who sold his Internet security company for a Space travel for some zillions...Well he did Invest the rest and became the top notch crusader for OSS and Ubuntu mainly). He is really a source of inspiration not only in the sense that he encourages OSS but by being one of the youngest Billionaire.. Infact he plays different roles in his life by being the patron of KDE, Shuttleworth Foundation , Ubuntu and HBD Venture Capital.
So I thought I would simply google for Mark Shuttleworth and the first result itself was more than enough for me...In this site maintained by Mr Mark , he carefully examines the role of OSS esp Ubuntu in the field on education , criticises Microsoft in a way you would like to hear [:P]..

The one thing among several others which attracted me is

" When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. " — Leonardo da Vinci

Such a genius .....



2 comments:

Cauvery Kesavasamy said...

nice quote at the end.. except that i dont follow this ubuntu thing... !! wat in the world is that? :)

Sachin said...

exatly...machu....enikkum manasilayilla....