Shuttleworth’s Apollo Challenge to the Linux Community
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, recently wrote a post detailing Ubuntu and Canonical’s contributions to the upstream projects that make up their distributions. There he mentioned a challenge he recently issued to the Linux and free software community: build a Linux-based UI and computing experience on par with Apple’s within two years.
This is the free software community’s version of JFK’s Space Challenge that resulted in the Apollo program. In 1961, JFK issued a challenge to the United State’s Congress, our space program and our academic and scientific communities: put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. (It’s also a serendipitous comparison given Mark’s penchant for space travel.) Minus the cold war rhetoric, I was struck by similarities to the open source movement when I re-read JKF’s speech:
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