Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth hits out at free software 'muppets' after company ditches Unity

Chris Merriman
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'The whole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind - it's free software that does something invisible really well,' wrote Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and CEO of open-source software vendor Canonical, has hit out at the "anti-social" free software community who "love to hate" anything commercial.  It follows the ...

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