Ubuntu founder asks gov?t to support open source advocacy

[Derek Broughton]

John wrote:

> 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

If you're running a business that intends to capitalize on distribution it's
_very_ fair - you want to get the word out to the biggest population
centres.  China, next!
-- 
derek