Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth: Prepare for the Shared Software Tidal Wave:
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I was poor. I was desperate. I wanted to be on this bandwagon of this Internet thing, and I wanted to find a business that wouldn't require large amounts of bandwidth or large amounts of capital. The key was Linux. [...]I sold that business in 1999, right at the top of the Internet bubble. That then gave me the opportunity to sit back and ask myself: What are the things in life that I would like to be a part of? You know, life is short.
One thing was to explore space and be a part of that adventure. I went and I did that. And the other thought was to be a part of this experience of free software, which had been beneficial to me -- bringing that to a much wider audience. And that's the genesis of Ubuntu.
