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mattwiesetoday at 2:36 PM1 replyview on HN

> Their behaviour has been more akin to a non-profit. Great for us, not so great for them in the long run.

This is particularly amusing when considering they helped start the Open Container Initiative with others back in 2015.

What if Docker "the company" was just a long con to use VC bux to fund open source? I say mostly in jest.


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pjmlptoday at 2:49 PM

Only because with Google open sourcing Kubernetes, it was a decision on still be able to play the game, or be left completely out, helping with OCI was a survival decision.

As proven later when Kubernetes became container runtime agnostic.