Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: Planning to Overtake Apple

Last summer, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu distribution and of Canonical, Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor, challenged the free and open source software (FOSS) to deliver a desktop experience superior to Apple’s.

Now in the process of introducing the first steps in meeting this challenge, recently Shuttleworth took the time to talk to Datamation about the origins of his interest in usability, the difficulties in implementing it, and the organization and road maps he’s creating to focus upon it.