{"id":550729,"date":"2006-11-03T06:41:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550729-humanity-s-a-hit.html"},"modified":"2006-11-03T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T06:41:10","slug":"humanity-s-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550729-humanity-s-a-hit.html","title":{"rendered":"Humanity\u2019s a hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">But Mark Shuttleworth\u2019s boldest venture yet, the free Ubuntu operating system for PCs, is proving to be a big success. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Last week, his London-based company Canonical released Edgy Eft, the codename for version 6.10 of Ubuntu. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In a short time, Ubuntu \u2014 the word means \u201chumanity to others\u201d in Zulu and Xhosa \u2014 has become the world\u2019s most popular open-source operating system. Shuttleworth (33) hasn\u2019t yet figured out how to make money from it. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Eventually, Canonical may turn a profit by providing paid-for support to Ubuntu users, especially corporate customers. Shuttleworth says the software will always be free to download. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The next version of Ubuntu, codenamed Feisty Fawn, is scheduled for release in April. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=57574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Have your say about Mark<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s not making newspaper headlines the way he did when he sold his Internet company in 2000 for US575m. Or when, two years later, he became the first South African in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}