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Mark Shuttleworth Closes Bug Number 1
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and of the Ubuntu Linux distro, closed Bug Number 1 on May 30, 2013. Bug Number 1 was filed in the Ubuntu bugtracker on August 20, 2004, two months before the release of "Warty Warthog," the first version of Ubuntu. The bug, filed by Shuttleworth himself, simply stated that "Microsoft has a majority market share" and went on to explain:
… This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the Ubuntu Project states, "Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all."
Nine years later, the proprietary bug has not been entirely solved (and Ubuntu itself has accepted many proprietary programs into its own fold), but Shuttleworth cites the changing proposition in personal computing as the reason for marking it as solved.
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