Mark Shuttleworth on the benefits of open-source

Creative Economy/2011/38 min/Reel № 11.001

ByMark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth on the benefits of open-source

What Will Creativity Hold for the Future?/Recorded 2011

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Mark Shuttleworth takes creative economy as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in United Kingdom in 2011, the conversation is grounded in Mark's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu Project, a free, open-source Linux-based operating system.

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Mark Shuttleworth

London/United Kingdom

Mark Shuttleworth is an entrepreneur who is passionate about cadence, design and quality in open source. He was also the world's First African in Space.