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Its unfortunate Docker came out of the VC space instead of being a hobby/research project with no intentions of making money. Solomon Hykes could have been the

Its unfortunate Docker came out of the VC space instead of being a hobby/research project with no intentions of making money. Solomon Hykes could have been the next Linus Torvalds and Docker could have been completely encompassed by a foundation, with the development being funded by a consortium of businesses each keeping each other in check as in the kernel. As it stands Docker seems to have burnt a lot of open source good will, and now people are left choosing between a failed unicorn desperate to monetize or a Red Hat knockoff designed to get you into RHEL. Docker is such a huge ecosystem of tools rolled into one that it's bound to live on forever, but the magic is gone.

HideousKojima 4y ago
>now people are left choosing between a failed unicorn desperate to monetize or a Red Hat knockoff designed to get you into RHEL There are other alternatives, like Amazon's Firecracker
- throitallaway 4y ago
  Firecracker looks more akin to AWS Lambda than Docker/containerization.
zokier 4y ago
Lxc was in many ways the community originated docker alternative. Sure, you could nitpick about system vs application containers, but ultimately I believe that it was exactly that VC funding that allowed Docker to make the impact it did.
- wink 4y ago
  Not sure, lxc has always been a little clunkier but if you look at the 80% case of "docker pull X; docker build .; docker run ..." I don't see how that problem couldn't have been solved. (No, this is not supposed to be a "how hard can it be to build your own dropbox in a weekend", but I did use LXC extensively in the past and with a few aliases it was honestly fine most of the time, for the developer side.)