The Beeb has an interesting interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the guy who runs Canonical, the company responsible for Ubuntu. I’ll highlight a few of Mark’s responses here, but the whole interview is well worth reading.

“If people think of computing as going to a PC, sitting down and starting Word, then the traditional view, of using Windows and Office, will persist.

“But if people think of their daily experience as a sit down on the web, we know that people can have a very compelling experience on Linux.

“In fact, we know it is a better web experience because they can do it without spyware, without viruses.”

Mr Shuttleworth said he believed there were about eight to nine million users of Ubuntu worldwide.

He said the French police force was currently deploying 50,000 Ubuntu-powered machines, while Spanish education authorities were rolling out 500,000 desktops with the OS.

There’s no culture of piracy in the Linux community.