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The new Shuttleworth
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mancombseepgood
Executive Member
Innovation and business is one thing, but I must just add that, working for a foreign aid firm, it is INCREDIBLY frustrating to understand and know the potential IT has for saving, improving and sustaining lives, but not be able to do anything about it because of the budget implications - no matter how much the budget is, there is no way to warrant the Telkom and government induced monthlies for what are effectively luxuries here, but essentials in any "common sensical" society...
Not because the money is not here, but simply because we are in the business of building SUSTAINABLE solutions which need to go on long after we have left... the idea of foreign aid is to pass on skills and build capacity, then work yourself out of a job and onto the next venture (there will always be poverty to eradicate, diseases to cure and sick and dying to take care of and provide some level of dignity in their last days). Alas, our hands are tied in many ways because of this.
Not because the money is not here, but simply because we are in the business of building SUSTAINABLE solutions which need to go on long after we have left... the idea of foreign aid is to pass on skills and build capacity, then work yourself out of a job and onto the next venture (there will always be poverty to eradicate, diseases to cure and sick and dying to take care of and provide some level of dignity in their last days). Alas, our hands are tied in many ways because of this.
AdLo
Expert Member
... with Shuttleworth's 25 mil.
I could also play billionare for a year or two if I get given that amount of money.
damian24
Senior Member
I've met Vinnay before and he's really ahead of the curve when it comes to things like seach marketing and the like, I do wonder if his idea's are just a little too far ahead of their time for now...
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I get the impression he's more "marketing" than "tech" - i.e. makes you think he's some sort of tech visionary but that's *marketing* - but the article is too heavy on feel-good fluff and too light on details to really tell.
greywolfe
Active Member
"new" shuttleworth.
a) the article was /terribly/ written.
b) hi. and welcome to the web circa 1996. i guess this vinnay person has never heard of geocities. or, i don't know, all the services that spawned after it, like tripod and freewebs or any of the other services JUST LIKE THIS ONE.
i /did/ look at the little video thing. and i have poked around some of the "blogs that are frothing at the mouth" over this, and really...all he did was...make a visual basic-like application on the internet. this is synergy? on what planet? the planet of the large dark nipple people? his problem is, this is earth. more appropriately, this is south africa. what he's doing is wasting bandwidth. he isn't being stifled. if you want to do this kind of thing, either learn the raw basics or please, for the love of god, go get a visual editor. there's some free ones. it's not that difficult.
c) as someone else pointed out, he's the "new" mark shuttleworth? he got money from MARK SHUTTLEWORTH HIMSELF. as the article plainly suggests. maybe it ought to have been retitled: "mark shuttleworth clone..."
-5/5.
minus style points for those terrible metaphors.
a) the article was /terribly/ written.
b) hi. and welcome to the web circa 1996. i guess this vinnay person has never heard of geocities. or, i don't know, all the services that spawned after it, like tripod and freewebs or any of the other services JUST LIKE THIS ONE.
i /did/ look at the little video thing. and i have poked around some of the "blogs that are frothing at the mouth" over this, and really...all he did was...make a visual basic-like application on the internet. this is synergy? on what planet? the planet of the large dark nipple people? his problem is, this is earth. more appropriately, this is south africa. what he's doing is wasting bandwidth. he isn't being stifled. if you want to do this kind of thing, either learn the raw basics or please, for the love of god, go get a visual editor. there's some free ones. it's not that difficult.
c) as someone else pointed out, he's the "new" mark shuttleworth? he got money from MARK SHUTTLEWORTH HIMSELF. as the article plainly suggests. maybe it ought to have been retitled: "mark shuttleworth clone..."
-5/5.
minus style points for those terrible metaphors.
Actually the writer ought to be shot...