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Democratic in this case means bringing it to a wider audience, making it more accessible to regular devs in this case I guess. See definition #3 here https://ww
by patrickaljord 10y ago
Democratic in this case means bringing it to a wider audience, making it more accessible to regular devs in this case I guess. See definition #3 here https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democratic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democratic
- skrebbel 10y agoI know you're just helping out, but it's kind of ironic that we need a dictionary reference before we can understand Docker marketing lingo.
- patrickaljord 10y agoHm no, this is a pretty common usage of the word and I didn't have to look up the definition. Democratization of a technology in English always refers to this definition (same in French and Spanish and most Latin languages).
- franciscop 10y agoI am sorry to correct you but in (Spain) Spanish no, in technology it is a fairly recent buzzword that is used mainly in marketing speak. Cannot talk about English, but I feel it's somewhat similar.
- patrickaljord 10y agoMaybe in Spain but in Latin America it is commonly used (I used to live there and my wife's from there). Obviously the expression "democratization of things" is not something people talk about in everyday's life but it is definitely correct.
- dsmithatx 10y agoThe project was open sourced yesterday and was only internal to Docker. Since this is open source and not anything they will sell I don't think they are using marketing speak per say.