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Mark Shuttleworth

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The history of Ubuntu dates back to April 2004 when Mark Shuttleworth formed a group of open source developers to create a new Linux OS. <placeholder-1/>Based on the principles of time-based releases, a strong Debian foundation, the GNOME desktop, and a commitment to freedom, this group operated initially under the auspices of http://no-name-yet.com.

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In a little over four years, Ubuntu has grown to a community of thousands of members and an estimated user base of over 8 million (as at June 2007). Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.

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Mark Shuttleworth is an African entrepreneur with a love for technology, innovation, change and space flight. Shuttleworth studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town and went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and cryptography. He sold Thawte to the U.S. company VeriSign in 1999 and founded HBD Venture Capital and the Shuttleworth Foundation. He moved to London in 2001 and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City, Russia and Khazakstan. In April 2002, he became a space traveller as a member of the cosmonaut crew of Soyuz Mission TM34 to the International Space Station. In early 2004, he founded the Ubuntu project, which aims to produce a free, high-quality, user friendly OS available for everybody.

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The Ubuntu Promise

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Stress on the Ubuntu promise because it holds the very essence of the spirit and success of the software.

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Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates.

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Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world.

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Ubuntu includes the best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer.