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Can't help but see this as bad for everything; to me it feels like if "curl" or "ssh" raises $23M. I would love for these people who work on these great tools
by jrm4 6y ago
Can't help but see this as bad for everything; to me it feels like if "curl" or "ssh" raises $23M. I would love for these people who work on these great tools to make lots of money, but what this means is that "now Docker has to figure out how to squeeze money out of this particular (admittedly good) tool in the chain" -- and the tool usually suffers.
- zapita 6y agoDocker was created by a VC-backed startup in 2013. So they have had an incentive to make money from the very start. At no point was Docker not financed by VC money.
- jrm4 6y agoThat doesn't really address anything I said? Regardless of how it got started -- it simply feels like the type of tool that doesn't fit well with a high-profit model because it is so backend/developer oriented. I've said it before, if you're trying to be profitable, that means there must be some part of it that is, "if you don't pay, you don't get it." What is that thing for Docker (a generally very open-sourcey thing), and will it be worth it?
- devmor 6y agoYeah, this is abjectly terrifying to me. A signal that I need to begin looking at alternatives to Docker.
- IceWreck 6y agoDocker popularized containers, but it does nothing special. Podman is the closest alternative, but a lot of engines can run images from any oci registry like docker hub. Other engines you might wanna look at: rkt, lxc with an oci template, etc. Kubernetes with cri-o runs oci containers as well.
- musicale 6y agoThis is exactly right. Docker is like lxc/lxd with some extra stuff (much of which I personally dislike.) It's not rocket science, and podman is obviously a drop-in replacement. The ssh example is good though - so much depends on ssh, yet how much do we invest in it?