Mark Shuttleworth, born on September 18, 1973, is a South African entrepreneur known for his contributions to the open-source software movement. He founded Thawte, a company providing digital certificate services, in the mid-1990s and later created Ubuntu, a free and open-source operating system based on Debian, aiming to make computer use more accessible. Shuttleworth also founded the Shuttleworth Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to education and technology development.
