Dot-Com-Millionaire from South Africa, creator/sponsor of Ubuntu, former Debian GNU/Linux developer, founder of Thawte (which he sold in 1999 to Verisign and made him rich), founder of Canonical, inventor of the freedom toasters , first African in Space and second space tourist overall.
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Interview with Mark Shuttleworth at the Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany. (25 MB Ogg-file via netzpolitik.org-Podcast)