> You mean like the conferences they held before they even had a viable product? The conference was awesome and there was plenty to announce at that point. It

> You mean like the conferences they held before they even had a viable product? The conference was awesome and there was plenty to announce at that point. It certainly helped drive home the conceptualization of containerization for many. > we should take a good minute and consider You're right we should consider - except what you're doing is making charges like; "we are head-first rushing", "perpetuated by a for-profit company", "my company will be at the whims of Docker" And other fear in this thread without providing your audience with the context of: - for profit companies backing an innumerable number of major technologies in a variety of fields since technology was a thing - most of the development of Docker happens outside of Docker Inc - the project has an independent governance board - the project has been nothing but the epitome of successful transparent open source If Docker ends up achieving a cohesive ecosystem of holistically designed pieces solving one of the most difficult unsolved problems (a class of problems, really) in modern computing benefiting so many then is it really a problem paying Docker Inc for first class support to all of that? I imagine there are already companies selling support for Docker other than Docker Inc It seems like you're the one imagining there is going to be no competition, honestly.