TBF if you know the history of Docker, it seems unlikely that this was their plan in the beginning. Docker started back before the container orchestrator wars

TBF if you know the history of Docker, it seems unlikely that this was their plan in the beginning. Docker started back before the container orchestrator wars and the rise of Kubernetes. They couldn't have predicted that or the popularity of their services and tools. They then had the enterprise Docker edition and swarm along with UCP which at one point looked like a reasonable path to monetization. It was only after selling the enterprise software arm to Mirantis, which isn't that long ago really, that it would have been likely that their end game was charging for the Docker desktop product.