The document provides a biography of Mark Shuttleworth, a South African entrepreneur who founded the Ubuntu operating system. It details that he was born in South Africa in 1973, studied at the University of Cape Town, and founded the security company Thawte Consulting in 1995 which he later sold for $575 million. With this money he founded Canonical Ltd in 2004 to promote Ubuntu, a Debian-based Linux distribution. Ubuntu is developed by Canonical and uses the Unity desktop environment, with the goal of being a freely available operating system based on open-source principles.

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Mark Shuttleworth
Founder of Canonical Ltd.
“Each of us has a dream, something we want to fulfil in life”
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur
and space tourist who became the first citizen of an independent African country to
travel to space. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2013, provides leadership
for the Ubuntu operating system. He currently lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual
citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Early Life:
Born in Welkom in South Africa's Orange Free State as a son of a surgeon and of a nursery-school teacher, Shuttleworth
attended school at Western Province Preparatory School (where he eventually became Head Boy in 1986), followed by one
term at Rondebosch Boys' High School, and then at Bishops/Diocesan College, where he was Head Boy in 1991.
Shuttleworth obtained a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Finance and Information Systems at the University of
Cape Town, where he lived in Smuts Hall. As a student, he became involved in the installation of the first residential
Internet connections at the university.
Work
Shuttleworth founded Thawte Consulting in 1995, which specialised in digital certificates and Internet security. In
December 1999, Thawte was acquired by VeriSign, earning Shuttleworth R 3.5 billion (about US$ 575 million at the time).
In September 2000, Shuttleworth formed HBD Venture Capital (Here be Dragons), a business incubator and venture
capital provider. In March 2004 he formed Canonical Ltd., for the promotion and commercial support of free software
projects, especially the Ubuntu operating system. In December 2009, Shuttleworth stepped down as the CEO of Canonical,
Ltd.
Linux and FOSS
In the 1990s, Shuttleworth participated as one of the developers of the Debian operating system. In 2001 he formed the
Shuttleworth Foundation, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to social innovation which also funds educational, free, and
open source software projects in South Africa, such as the Freedom Toaster. In 2004 he returned to the free software world
by funding the development of Ubuntu, a Linux distribution based on Debian, through his company Canonical Ltd. In
2005, he founded the Ubuntu Foundation and made an initial investment of 10 million dollars. In September 2005, he
purchased a 65% stake of Impi Linux.
About Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system and distribution for personal computers, smartphones and network
servers. It uses Unity as its default desktop environment. It is based on free software and named after the Southern African
philosophy of ubuntu (literally, "human-ness"), which often is translated as "humanity towards others" or "the belief in a
universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".
Development of Ubuntu is led by UK-based Canonical Ltd., a company owned by South African entrepreneur Mark
Shuttleworth. Canonical generates revenue through the sale of technical support and other services related to Ubuntu. The
Ubuntu project is publicly committed to the principles of open-source software development; people are encouraged to use
free software, study how it works, improve upon it, and distribute it.
Awards and Recognistion
 On 25 October 2013, Shuttleworth and Ubuntu were awarded the Austrian anti-privacy Big Brother Award for
sending local Ubuntu Unity Dash searches to Canonical servers by default.
 In September 2010, he received an honorary degree from the Open University for this work.