Ubuntu gets set to mark fifth birthday

“It will be another proud moment for Mark Shuttleworth, the
South African entrepreneur who did what was once considered a crazy
thing – adding to the ranks of GNU/Linux distributions in 2004.

“Shuttleworth has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams as far as
usage goes but he still has a few mountains left to climb as he
tries to remove the red ink from the Canonical books.

“But he is a patient man, has deep pockets and has shown the
ability to negotiate skilfully.

“His recent major battle has been to try and persuade at least
one other major distribution to synchronise releases and I have no
doubt that he will finally succeed. After that the landscape will
improve markedly.”

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