Ubuntu founder asks gov’t to support open source advocacy

[John]

Senectus . wrote:

> .....
> 
> Though he did not specify numbers, Shuttleworth said the Philippines
> is one of the company's biggest distributorships in Asia Pacific. They
> were able to ship 57,000 CDs of Ubuntu Linux in the last 12 weeks,
> compared to just 52,000 in Australia and 16,000 in Japan.

Hey, no fair, they have more people:
14 Philippines 87,857,473 July 2005 est.
54 Australia 20,090,437 July 2005 est.
Source http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html