Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
LWN editor Jake Edge had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu
and Canonical, for an wide-ranging, hour-long conversation
while at Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) in Budapest. In his opening talk, Shuttleworth said that he wanted to "make the case
"
for contributor agreements, which is something he had not been successful
in doing previously. In order to do that, he outlined a rather different
vision than he has described before of how to increase Linux and free
software adoption, particularly on
the desktop, in order to reach his goal of 200 million Ubuntu users in the
next four years. While some readers may not agree with various parts of
that vision, it is
definitely worth understanding Shuttleworth's thinking here.