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>No open source company has ever forked code from an existing product, started a competing business, and stolen business away from the originator. Your main po
by otoburb 12y ago
>No open source company has ever forked code from an existing product, started a competing business, and stolen business away from the originator.
Your main point stands, but one counter-example perhaps worth mentioning is MariaDB (the Enterprise version[1], not just the free version[2]). Oracle's treatment of MySQL was enough to force a reaction from the community to fork and continue to build a drop-in replacement. Although, for the same analogy to apply here a majority of the core Docker developers would need to defect to DockerFork.
[1] https://mariadb.com/ https://mariadb.com/
[2] https://mariadb.org/ https://mariadb.org/