Linux World SA interview

[Paul Sladen]

  http://transcripts.businessday.co.za/cgi-bin/transcripts/t-showtranscript.pl?1116369059

Transcript of an audio-interview with Mark, so thankfully no pictures of
mugshots with dodgy haircuts in this one:  ;-)   *runs*

  MARK SHUTTLEWORTH: Ubuntu is my initiative in the Linux space. It’s a
  project that I have been working on for a year-and-a-half. Essentially we
  make Ubuntu freely available globally - we also then offer support, and
  other relationships for it. We’ve had some initial success in a number
  of countries - in Spain, for example, three of the provinces have said that
  they will create customised versions of Linux based on Ubuntu, and those
  will be the standard environments for all pupils in all schools across
  those three provinces. We’ve seen similar initiatives in Brazil, and
  more and more large organisations - particularly very high volume server
  environments like Google and others - are starting to use Ubuntu as well. 

the rest is mainly about "Linux" in the local economy, rather than "Ubuntu".

	-Paul
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