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NYT Article on the man behind Ubuntu

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html

Found this great article getting inside of the head of them man who is responsibile for the Linux Distro I, and the majority of linux users, use: Ubuntu.   Mark Shuttleworth is indeed what I would strive towards, a ultra rich man that decides to do something that can change the world.  Albeit it isn’t feeding starving kids, his change is much much more pervasive and in the end his Distro of Linux will no doubt be installed (for FREE) in the hospitals and schools of those same children changing their lives in a very real and powerful way, and ultimately changing the way the world looks at proprietary vs. open source environments.

My hats off to him!

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Our plight is now widespread

When the threat of the pine beetle makes it into the NY times you know that it has moved beyond our backyard.  I sometimes wonder which one of these disasters will be the one that breaks the camels back and sends us back into the dark ages?  Economic Meltdown coupled with Global Warming, coupled with running out of oil, coupled with Flooding and rising sea levels, coupled with pine beetles, coupled with a lack of drinking water, coupled with war, coupled with increased hurricanes and other natural disasters…… and the list goes on :)

Anyways, the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18trees.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&oref=slogin

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