The entrepreneur who wants to give it all away

**ubuntu_demon** · July 30th, 2006

From :
http://www.benking.co.uk/art/Ubuntu_...t_all_away.php

So you've made half a billion dollars and you have paid for a trip to space. What on earth do you do next? Some might consider politics, others would sit back and enjoy a life of leisure. But for technology entrepreneur and cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth the next battle was to take on the might of Microsoft on its core territory - the desktop.

An interesting detail of the story :

Exact numbers are hard to come by, but estimates put the number of computers running Ubuntu at up to6m and doubling everyeight months.

So if this growth speed is accurate and would remain constant then there will be 1 billion (1000 million) computers running Ubuntu in less than 5 years

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I posted this on my blog :
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/200...e-it-all-away/

**Kernel Sanders** · July 30th, 2006

We can dream.....

**Lord Illidan** · July 30th, 2006

6 million? Somehow I doubt it...

**mips** · July 30th, 2006

ubuntu_demon,

For a second there I thought you were gonna give away your fortunes, got excited as I was hoping to get a bit ?

Mark is pretty famous in SA for his generosity and good nature. When he sold his company he gave every single one of his staff a million bucks (Rands) including the tea lady and gardener if I'm not mistaken.