Mark Shuttleworth
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About
Founder of the poplar Ubuntu open-source operating system. He was the first African-born man to go into space.
Before Fame
He founded Canonical Ltd. after creating Ubuntu to sell commercial support for his software.
Trivia
He also founded and sold for more than $500 million an internet security company. He used part of that money to catch a ride on a Soyuz spaceship.
Family Life
He was born in Welkom, South Africa, his father a surgeon and his mother a schoolteacher.
Associated With
He and Arlene Dickinson were contemporaries.
