Funny but Misleading.

Bug #1 has been marked resolved. For those of you unaware Bug #1 for Canonical's Ubuntu "Microsoft has a majority market share" was marked resolved by founder Mark Shuttleworth, above is a picture of him conjured up by +Fabian Scherschel. Plenty of people have written about this so you can learn more elsewhere (you know Google and stuff).

Many people such as Mr. Scherschel have joked about this but it is a rather important event. The desktop market is only a minority of the computing market the mobile market now dominates the consumer scene. Much of this market is not controlled by Microsoft or even Apple. By many estimates Android dominates the global consumer computing market. This opens the gates and does away with the near monopoly that Microsoft had.

The above picture makes it seem as if Shuttleworth is claiming the credit for this change. This has been the opinion of many. Don't worry I'm here to set you straight :). Mr. Shuttleworth does anything but claim credit. In his closing comment on the bug:

Even though we have only played a small part in that shift, I think it's important for us to recognize that the shift has taken place. So from Ubuntu's perspective, this bug is now closed. 

If I may paraphrase the man:

Ubuntu set out to accomplish this goal and we didn't. Instead, other people got there first. Either way it was accomplished so it's all good.

This really exemplifies the true spirit of opensource. The collaborative spirit which doesn't care who does it as long as it get done.

I'm excited to see what happens with Ubuntu's mobile offerings because I think they have something really unique to offer. With a guy like +Mark Shuttleworth as founder and one of the most influential people in the project I'm confident in Ubuntu's future as an opensource project.