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Keynote

Why Free Software Values Work for Business

Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu/Canonical Ltd.

Track: O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing
Date: Tuesday, July 24
Time: 1:55pm - 2:15pm
Location: Portland Ballroom

While other open major Linux distributions have come to include proprietary components and services, splitting off "community versions" that remain completely open source, Ubuntu has clung fiercely to free software principles. Yet it has become both the fastest growing and most user-friendly of Linux distributions, with breakthrough OEM distribution from Dell and others. Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth will explain how Ubuntu has seemingly found the secret of commercial success in the very freedoms that once seemed antithetical to business.