I remember back around 2009, our org had this horrible open source program, which shall not be named, foisted upon us by an excitable bloke who had heard wondro

I remember back around 2009, our org had this horrible open source program, which shall not be named, foisted upon us by an excitable bloke who had heard wondrous things from the university where it had been developed. Well, we had a bitch of a time getting it running. Instructions and build scripts were minimal. We thrashed around. I noted to someone that this felt less like a product and more like a website and set of scripts ripped from a working system. A few of us were shipped up to the originating university for a week to hob-knob with the people in charge of it. Toward the end, during the ritual inebriation phase, I managed to find out that they had never actually attempted to install it on a clean system. This had truly been ripped from a working system. And I thought to myself, "How horrible." Now, I am admittedly pants at Linux. No good at all. But there is something about Docker and similar technologies that says, "Yes, we threw our hands in the air and stopped trying to make a decent installation system."