Austrian website derstandard.at has a long interview with Mark Shuttleworth. SADBFL is asked about many things, including:

  • attractiveness of Ubuntu vs. offerings from Novell and Red Hat (cutting-edge technologies and enterprise utilities)
  • free flavor of Gutsy
  • Ubuntu in non-geeky environments
  • perspectives of Ubuntu being offered by OEMs and in stores
  • relationship with Sun
  • Canonical's current situation and perspectives
  • Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu "market share"
  • debian having released Etch
  • Vista
  • One Laptop Per Child
  • reasons behind not open-sourcing Launchpad

As you can see, there's a lot to read. I really liked the way this interview was conducted - interviewer didn't just hand out the list of questions, without relating to what the interviewee replied. It's pretty rare nowdays, especially in IT world.
One thing makes me wonder - ever since Dell announced it's thinking seriously about offering Linux-powered systems, Shuttleworth has kept repeating how hard and dangerous it is for OEMs to do so ("margins are very low", "it would mislead customers and create support problems"). In general, it seems he sounds like his discouraging OEMs from doing it. What do you think is a reason behind it?