Afronaut is skiing to the cutting edge of IT
MARK Shuttleworth, South Africa’s billionaire Afronaut, is planning to live to 100 — and to have spent all his money by then.
He does not see the need to increase his billions “trying to climb some chart” and he is prepared “to spend chunks of it having fun” — Shuttleworth is currently on a two-month stay in Verbier, Switzerland. When not having fun he spends the bulk of his time working on Ubuntu, a free Linux-based operating system.
Shuttleworth, who got R3.5- billion for selling his company Thawte, is combining work and play at Verbier, working on Ubuntu and touching up on his skiing and snowboarding.
“Due to the miracle of broadband, I don’t have to be in any one place,” he explained.
He said his skiing is atrocious but that his boarding is not too bad.
He maintains an office in London, where he lives, and it is a meeting point for the people working on Ubuntu, who are spread around the world. They meet about four times a year.
Shuttleworth is a long-time advocate of open-source technology and Ubuntu, which started in 2004.
Ubuntu is used by the opposite extremes of the computer culture — in places where people need something that is straightforward, reliable and doesn’t need maintenance, like on granny’s computer, and the power users — the Internet-savvy users who want control over their desktops.
He is still working on attracting those people who fall in between.
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