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We're in a new weird technology landscape where everything is driven by pride and ego and money instead of "what's best for everyone" progress or even stable te
by seiji 11y ago
We're in a new weird technology landscape where everything is driven by pride and ego and money instead of "what's best for everyone" progress or even stable technological advancement.
Things like Docker and systemd are exactly EEE land grab lock-in plays to redirect "open source" value back towards private entities and unilateral control structures (instead of cross-vendor standards bodies, because standards bodies can't make individuals into billionaires).
How do we as lowly developers with effectively $0 net worth fight companies with billion dollar war chests? Over time, better does win (see: the collapse and accelerating irrelevance of Microsoft), but in the short term it's likely we'll get stuck in another 10 years of platform "dark ages" until we see the light again.
- scaryclam 11y agoWith systems like Docker we're just making sure that we don't lock ourselves in. If you decouple deployment and your code (which you shouldn't have coupled to a container anyway) from how you run it (containers, a VM, etc) then there's no problem moving to or away from systems like Docker. This is how developers can make sure they're not getting the raw end of the deal, and makes for a much cleaner setup anyway.
- knowaveragejoe 11y agoYou may want to revisit your assumptions about the "accelerating irrelevance" of Microsoft. I'm no fanboy but the direction they've taken in the last few years is every promising, and we've only begun to see what it will mean.
- ascendantlogic 11y agoMicrosoft is not irrelevant. Maybe in your corner of the world but they're still very much a big player and actually turning the ship (slowly) in the right direction.