PARIS — Sometimes it seems that Canonical, Ubuntu‘s parent company, can’t win for losing. Often accused of trying to force other open-source groups to follow their lead by keeping projects internal until they feel it’s ready to be shared with others, when Ubuntu announced its intention to build LXD, a hypervisor for containers at the OpenStack Summit, the company was immediately accused of announcing vaporware (!); of shoving LXD down other programmers’ throats; and of trying to replace Docker.

Please!

I spoke with Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu’s founder, and Dustin Kirkland, Canonical’s product manager, at the conference, and here’s really what’s going on with LXD.

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