Part III: Shuttleworth on HBD, ImpiLinux, Geographical Ubuntu Appeal and Gnome v KDE (The 451 Group)

[Posted June 9, 2006 by ris]

The 451 Group has published part 3 of an interview with Mark Shuttleworth interspersed with commentary from 451 Group analysts. "Shuttleworth's venture capital fund, HBD (it stands for Here Be Dragons, an allusion to the scary parts at the edges of old map coverage, which pretty much sums up Shuttleworth's Avast! attitude towards innovation) has, among other investments, invested in ImpiLinux, a localized African-language version of Ubuntu. We wondered whether the demand for this software is strong enough that it would support that kind of commercial development, say, of localized Spanish or Asian language versions of Ubuntu?"

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