http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2006/09/06/mark-shuttleworth-was-almost-on-the-apprentice en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. Usually we don&#8217;t stray off the political road here but I was just reading <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/09/05/linux-ubuntu-opensource_cz_mr_0906shuttleworth.html?partner=rss">an article on Ubuntu</a>, the Linux distribution funded by SA&#8217;s own dotcom millionaire and cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth, when the following quote jumped out at me: <blockquote> <p>Shuttleworth tried out in early 2005 for the Donald Trump role on a South African version of The Apprentice, but lost to a politically connected head of a mining company.</p> </blockquote> <p>A &#8216;politically connected head of a mining company&#8217; you say? Who on earth could that be&#8230;</p> Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:21:00 -0500 urn:uuid:d7835a5020801a13ac608a1d054ed78b Farrel http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2006/09/06/mark-shuttleworth-was-almost-on-the-apprentice General