Mark Shuttleworth has an interesting story. He founded Thawte, the company that sells relatively low-cost web site certificates, and became exceedingly wealthy when Verisign acquired Thawte. Mark paid $20M, if I remember correctly, to fly in space on a Russian spacecraft. Now he is funding new projects, both commercial and open source.
Posted by Doug Sauder at December 3, 2003 09:01 PM