Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu/Canonical | Open Infrastructure Summit, Denver

In this episode of Let's Talk, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical talks about Ubuntu, OpenStack, Canonical IPO, Foundation and how public cloud and open source projects need each other. Guest: Mark Shuttleworth - founder and CEO of Canonical Host: Swapnil Bhartiya - founder and Editor-in-Chief of TFIR Location: Open Infrastructure Summit, Denver Colorado. Canonical: www.canonical.com TFIR: www.tfir.io Topics we discussed: 00:00:51 Black Hole Image Used Open Source and Ubuntu 00:01:31 How Ubuntu Enables users to do exciting things 00:03:00 Ubuntu Advantage Infrastructure 00:06:15 Everything that was free is still free 00:07:00 How important is Desktop? 00:09:00 Will Desktop Linux ever take off? 00:09:27 Engineers don’t like being controlled 00:10:09 How Ubuntu Snaps evolved 00:11:31 Fragmentation of Linux 00:11:57 Linux on desktop has not invented anything…. 00:14:31 IPO of Ubuntu 00:16:45 On friction between Foundations 00:21:41 Should open source companies worry about AWS? 00: 23:13 Always pragmatic