Canonical founder sets pragmatic tone for API standards
The customer is always right, so says the old adage. And when the customer is a commercially successful Linux distribution vendor that’s participating in your open source project, that customer may be even more right.
That’s the situation between OpenStack and Canonical, after Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth posted a public entreaty for OpenStack to keep the cloud computing project’s APIs based on the de facto standards of Amazon Web Services (AWS), rather than OpenStack trying to differentiate itself by putting together its own API secret sauce.