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Founder · Executive · Engineer
Mark Shuttleworth and the expensive art of giving things away
A software sale bought him a seat on a Soyuz. Ubuntu gave the Canonical founder a more stubborn problem: making something free that could keep paying its way.
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Enterprise · Developer Tools · Ai
Canonical gave away Ubuntu. Then it found the paying customer.
The company behind Ubuntu chased a phone that never shipped. Its more durable business is keeping other people’s open-source software running - from 5G networks to space-mission infrastructure.
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