…South Africans were unlikely to ever do any “deep” development work on Linux. …“Deep dev of the core OS” was not likely to happen in South Africa where students were “still grappling with coding skills”, says Matusow. They are “not going to dive into the inner workings of Linux”” -Microsoft director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow
“Mark Shuttleworth is an African entrepreneur with a love of technology, … Mark was born in the dusty gold-mining town of Welkom in South Africa, …
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