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> It’s just a tremendous waste of energy > The world’s container infrastructure runs on containerd, runc and docker I don't consider alternate implementations
by kbenson 6y ago
> It’s just a tremendous waste of energy
> The world’s container infrastructure runs on containerd, runc and docker
I don't consider alternate implementations of widely used software to be wasted evergy almost ever. Was Clang a waste of energy because everyone was using GCC? There are many reasons why multiple implementations may be useful, competition and being able to cater to slightly different common use cases obvious ones.
I'm not sure why any end user would wish for there not to be multiple open source projects looking to satisfy a similar technical need.
> in the end will be problematic for Red Hat
That may be, but I don't really care about whether it's good for Red Hat. I care that it increased user choice and maybe at some point features and capabilities offered to users (whether through podman or pressure on docker).
- zapita 6y agoThat’s fair, there’s always a benefit to alternate implementations. I think those were started for the wrong reasons (interpersonal conflict rather than technical requirements) but perhaps in the end it doesn’t matter.