> How would that company survive exactly? Let me distill my thinking: a tool does not have to be a company, or be backed by a single-product company. IMO,the

> How would that company survive exactly? Let me distill my thinking: a tool does not have to be a company, or be backed by a single-product company. IMO,the more successful tools tend to be backed by a maintainer & contributors who work on it in their free time, or by a consortium of companies that do not directly make money from the tool, but are willing to put money into it. Docker-like functionality can be replaced by such models, so we are not stuck in a perpetual cycle of ${ToolName}, LLC