Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has hit out at critics of free software, saying he is\u00a0disgusted with the hate for Mir.<\/p>\n
Mir is a computer display server for the Linux operating system that is under development by Canonical.<\/p>\n
Responding to a question about the future of Mir, Shuttleworth said they have lots of IoT projects with Mir as a compositor – so the code continues to receive investment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a very fast, clean, and powerful graphics composition engine, and smart people love it for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mir has received criticism from various people, including Linux kernel developer Matthew Garrett, about its choice of licensing.<\/p>\n
Mir contributors are required to sign an agreement that “grants Canonical the right to relicense your contribution under their choice of licence\u201d.<\/p>\n
Shuttleworth hit back at critics of the free software, saying the \u201cwhole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind – it’s free software that does something invisible really well\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt became a political topic as irrational as climate change or gun control, where being on one side or the other was a sign of tribal allegiance.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a problem in the community when people choose to hate free software instead of loving that someone cares enough to take their life’s work and make it freely available.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shuttleworth thinks \u201cmany members of the free software community are just deeply anti-social types who love to hate on whatever is mainstream\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Windows was mainstream, they hated on it. Rationally, Windows does many things well and deserves respect for those,\u201d said Shuttleworth.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when Canonical went mainstream, it became the focus of irrational hatred too.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThe very same muppets would write about how terrible it was that iOS\/Android had no competition, and then how terrible it was that Canonical was investing in (free software) compositing and convergence. F*ck that sh*t.\u201d<\/p>\n
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