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Thawte Founder Launches Open Source Campaign

Posted by Hemos on from the pushing-for-acceptance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mark Shuttleworth ? , lauched a campaign to increase the use of open-source software in South Africa, according to the Sunday Times. The GO-open source campaign is aimed at households and small businesses. Shuttleworth founded Thawte Consulting in 1995 and subsequently sold it to Verisign for $575 Million."

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  1. Everything2 sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Use this link instead: Mark Shuttleworth.

  2. Re:Good publicity can't hurt by Misch · · Score: 4, Informative

    R would be Rand.

    18 Million Rand = about 2.56 million dollars (US).

    (According to xe.com)

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  3. Re:Afronaut? by Twyford · · Score: 2, Informative

    Afro as in African. Afro-American meaning African American. Just a short way of saying it. :)

  4. And he likes slashdot... by GPLDAN · · Score: 4, Informative

    In his Bio he lists Slashdot as one of his likes.

    He sold Thwate for $575M. Damn, outside of the guy who founded Hotmail and actually walked away from a Microsoft $300M offer, holding out until he got something like $500M, this is the 2nd most impressive dot-com startup guy I've heard about. That's amazing.

  5. Related Link by CompWerks · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.markshuttleworth.com/

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  6. Just for the Record by Pope+Raymond+Lama · · Score: 2, Informative

    This sane Mike Shuttleworth offered, about 2 months ago, some funding for The Gimp, and two of the current developers made a deal with him to be paid to further GEGL (Generic Graphical Library) development and integration with the GIMP.

    GEGL, once fully implemented, and integrated to The GIMP core, will finally allow it to use images with higher color depths than 8 bit per plane.

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