Today Linux (and Linux-related products) are firmly established in enterprises, consumer devices, and cloud computing.
The technology, although relatively established in industry and enterprise settings, has never really been available to the mass market consumer or on anything other than secure laptops.
Susan Aktemel is a finalist in the social business leader category and is the director of Impact Arts, a Scotland-based national social enterprise established in 1994.
Matthew Thomson, chief executive of Fifteen Cornwall, a social enterprise established in 2006, which has now trained 191 disadvantaged young people to be chefs, agrees.
Established in 1999 by Scottish Enterprise in partnership with the Scottish Executive, the 3-year, £11 million fund was designed to support the commercialisation of cutting-edge research and technologies in academic institutions throughout Scotland.
Souktel is a private enterprise (established in 2006) that promotes the use of mobile phone to link people with jobs, thus reducing information asymmetries and frictional unemployment in selected communities.
Who's helping: To cut down on wait times, NextDrop, a social enterprise established in 2011, collects information about water services in India and sends out text alerts to locals about when they'll receive water, when there's a delay and when they'll likely be affected by pipe damage.
Most of the enterprises established in Peter's lifetime did not survive him.
The Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami partnerships with Vuitton, for example, might be worth critical consideration if they weren't just cash-cow retreads of art-related enterprises established in a genuinely subversive spirit many years ago.
For instance, as shown in Fig. 1, manufacturing MSEs show that 50% of the enterprises established in 2014/15 have been dropped out from the business in Amhara region.
