I think Solomon has hit the nail on the head here, but I'll call it out even more starkly. Assuming containerd is successful, and that higher-order systems lik

I think Solomon has hit the nail on the head here, but I'll call it out even more starkly. Assuming containerd is successful, and that higher-order systems like Kubernetes and Mesos use containerd directly, we will see one of two things in 12-18 months time: 1) There are hundreds of thousands of DOCKER users 2) There are hundreds of thousands of CONTAINERD users The split is forcing stratification (in a good way) where there previously was none. Users have to identify whether they think "docker" means "a container runtime" or "a full stack". Of course, the pie is growing, so maybe we get both results. The real problems over the next 12-18 months are MESSAGING and DISENTANGLING. How do you get this message across to people, and can you actually change the words in the common vernacular? As owners of the word "Docker" Solomon can define it how he likes, but that doesn't mean he can actually stop people from using it to mean something else. That's going to be a process. c.f. "literally". Even Webster's Dictionary has given up the fight on that.