Ubuntu创始人加入Linux基金会

　　Mark Shuttleworth,头衔太多，非洲亿万富翁、太空人，最近又加了一个，那就是Linux 基金会指导委员会成员。

　　Linux基金会是今年1月份才成立，是由以前的两家著名的非盈利性质的Linux组织OSDL和FSG合并而成。两家组织希望通过资源整合可 以更加有效的在市场上推广Linux，并实现Linux的标准化。Mark Shuttleworth也表示，新的Linux基金会的建立为Linux市场的成功打下了一个好的基础。

　　Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced on his blog that he has accepted a seat on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation.

　　The Linux Foundation was founded in January 2007 when the two leading non-profit groups supporting Linux, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG), joined forces. By uniting their efforts, the groups hoped to further their goals of supporting and standardizing Linux. Shuttleworth believes that the new organization is off to a good start in reaching those goals.

　　"I'm very impressed with the results of the early work being done at the new Linux Foundation," Shuttleworth said. "I think it's a credit to the folks who set up the new entity that they have been able to narrow the focus substantially and get buy-in from all the major players on the goals for 2007."

　　Shuttleworth says this is why he has "accepted a seat on the board of the Linux Foundation, not in my capacity as founder of Ubuntu or via Canonical" (Shuttleworth's company, which supports Ubuntu), "but as an independent representative of the free software and Linux community."

　　While Shuttleworth is "not a great fan of consortia," he "agreed to take on this role because I think the management have a mandate [from the backers] to deliver something that's really important for free software -- an open process of standardization that delivers results in competitive time frames. I'll do my best to help them achieve that."