Future within our reach: Mark Shuttleworth at TEDxSãoTomé

Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a computer programmer, a South African who became millionaire after selling his company internet security. in its curriculum include the founding of companies such as Joint Venture HBD (with Tourist investments valued at 70 million U.S. dollars in the Island Prince) and Canonical Ltd responsible for the promotion of free software. It is at this company born free software like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu, all derived from Debian and distributed free of charge through download. The founder of HBD is also the patron of the Shuttleworth Foundation. a nonprofit organization dedicated to social innovation which also funds projects educational software and free. In 2002, Mark Shuttleworth made ​​history by becoming the first African to go into space and the second space tourist.
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