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Re:Why Mark Shuttleworth is important to desktop Linux by mkr-hn on Friday August 02, 2013 @10:53AM (#6147239)
Having the good sense to set up a system that can create Ubuntu and let it work is a kind of vision. I vaguely recall something about this being how Steve Jobs worked: he created a system where people could work on ideas, and he only acted as the gatekeeper who kept the bad ideas from reaching the market.
Re:Why Mark Shuttleworth is important to desktop Linux by keithpeter on Friday August 02, 2013 @11:16AM (#6147420)
Yes, Shuttleworth has good leadership skills and has pushed an agenda all these years, not to mention putting quite a few $million where his mouth was.

Do you think Jobs would have allowed a MacOs X update to badly break the way MS Office worked?

Re:Why Mark Shuttleworth is important to desktop Linux by general_failure on Friday August 02, 2013 @11:26AM (#6147516)
You mean apple and not jobs right?
Re:Why Mark Shuttleworth is important to desktop Linux by keithpeter on Friday August 02, 2013 @11:54AM (#6147709)
The post three up mentioned Jobs being concerned to stop poor work reaching customers so I replied in kind.

Yes, for consistency with my original reply, I should have said Apple!