Thawte Founder Launches Open Source Campaign

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."

Comments

Re:Robber Baron Stikes Again

[Twyford]

This has nothing to do with Verisign. Mark sold Thawte to Verisign and is using the money for better causes. The money that is being used for this initiative is Mark's and the partners involved, NOT Verisign. If you understood the situation in South Africa, which I do as a citizen, any new way to save money that could be put to use in a better way is something to look at.

RE: Good publicity can't hurt

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

All the pretty advertisements in the world aren't going to help you get your Fedora Desktop running correctly when there's a kernel bug.

And, all the pretty desktops that run on Linux don't mean squat if the bean counters and other non-techie PHBs never considers evaluating them. I think this has to be done on both fronts, PR to people that control the purse strings at larger companies, and investment in developers that produce commercial class applications.