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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."

3 of 91 comments (clear)

  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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    --You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
  3. 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.