Ashlee Vance writes in A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows: "All the fuss at the meeting centered on something called Ubuntu and a man named Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic 35-year-old billionaire from South Africa who functions as the spiritual and financial leader of this coding clan.*"Shuttleworth Meerkat is from the Flatmountain burrow in a neck of the Kalahari that has water so damn cold that if they where able to desalinate it, it would be perfect for Pina Amarula Coladas.
But I digress, this is supposed to be a problem management blog and all. Shuttleworth Meerkat adds: "It feels pretty clear to me that the open process produces better stuff." The meerkat who now tunnels at the Canonical burrow, which is not in the Kalahari, but across the pond. Shuttleworth is now a meerkat in London. The conclusion he draws is that if you use ubuntu you are less likely to experience tunnel collapse problems in your infrastructure. I wonder if 2009 will be the year that burrows stop using windows? Every self-respecting meerkat knows that windows are an open invitation to become lunch for lurking eagles and cobras!
* A group of meerkats is called a mob, gang or clan.
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