I wanted to do something, which was really global. Free software is a phenomenon, which is truly global.

South African-born Mark Shuttleworth, the brain behind the Ubuntu project, mentioned in an interview. It is named after an African word that means ‘Humanity to others’, or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. This has become one of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions.

In an interview to The Guardian, he mentioned:

This is a platform for all people. Linux has come from a tradition of serving as a platform for specialists. We articulated the challenge for us clearly in our name: Let us make this something, which we can proudly give out to all people, even those who are not passionate about technology.

He added:

I simply read a huge amount of correspondence between the developers on a project, which holds key to the way we do Ubuntu (the Debian project). It is amazing how much jumps out in terms of the way individuals think, and the depth of their experience.

Open source is not just a great way for developing your own talent and skills but it is also a great means of getting a job, and a perfect way to go looking for people, he thinks.