Mark Shuttleworth has his gaze fixed firmly upwards, both towards the heavens and the open source movement. The South African entrepreneur, who is successfully making the Linux operating system commercially viable through Ubuntu, was also the second ever space tourist.

In recent weeks Shuttleworth has been in the news following a key distribution deal with Dell for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu has emerged as a strong player in the open source software movement and his deal with Dell means computer buyers can use an alternative platform to Windows.

Shuttleworth says of his freely available Ubuntu operating system: “Of all the things that I have taken on, this is the most challenging, and the thing that should potentially bring about the best changes in open source movement.”

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