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Re: [News] [] The Key to Mark Shuttleworth's Success Was Linux

  • Subject: Re: [News] [] The Key to Mark Shuttleworth's Success Was Linux
  • From: "amicus_curious" <ACDC@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:33:35 -0400
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  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Usenet Monster - http://www.usenetmonster.com
  • References: <4514546.gzAbTsBn8k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:537045
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:4514546.gzAbTsBn8k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth: Prepare for the Shared Software Tidal Wave
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "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. It 
> was
> | Linux that let me connect to the Net so I could start soaking up this
> | knowledge," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux.
> `----
>
> http://www.technewsworld.com/story/57946.html#9658053938283903337
>
> The same story with Google. Bill Gates, on the other hand, just came from 
> a
> very wealthy family and found corruption/deceit to be a powerful tool, not
> Linux.

Of course that must be the explanation.  That is all it would take, eh? 



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