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Docker Raises $23M

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Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by mvzvm »

systemvoltage wrote: post #42
paxys wrote: post #27

Considering how entrenched Docker has been in global tech infrastructure for so many years, I automatically assumed that the company was worth billions already, but guess not. I wonder why they haven't been bought out by Microsoft or Google, if nothing else then just for the talent.

It is obvious. This is a common pattern: 1. Offer open-source 100% free product that's absolutely ground breaking, unlike anything else. 2. Get a shitload of users and free PR machine gets rolling. Network effects kick in. 3. Go to investors with your active user count in excess of millions. 4. Investors go bonkers and their eyes swell up with all the ways they can exploit these addicted-to-free user base. 5. Company…

> when Amazon swiped the rug from under them. Good.

> I have zero empathy for these companies and their investors.

Are you trolling? Or do you want to see all amazing open source tech move behind closed doors and payed walled gardens?

Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by mvzvm »

systemvoltage wrote: post #34
bredren wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried GitHub packages?

Yes. Someones gotta pay for the free container registry all my sideprojects depend on!

You are all over this thread being snarky, and commenting in what seems to be bad faith. Please stop, this is not reddit.

Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by systemvoltage »

Yajirobe wrote: post #53
systemvoltage wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is obvious. This is a common pattern: 1. Offer open-source 100% free product that's absolutely ground breaking, unlike anything else. 2. Get a shitload of users and free PR machine gets rolling. Network effects kick in. 3. Go to investors with your active user count in excess of millions. 4. Investors go bonkers and their eyes swell up with all the ways they can exploit these addicted-to-free user base. 5. Company…

> I have zero empathy for these companies and their investors. Wow, imagine being so hateful towards amazing open-source tools

Open source tools were developed by the community and they're being harrassed now for monetization.

How is that being hateful? I am looking out for the community in this sense.

Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by paxys »

amelius wrote: post #46
paxys wrote: post #27

Considering how entrenched Docker has been in global tech infrastructure for so many years, I automatically assumed that the company was worth billions already, but guess not. I wonder why they haven't been bought out by Microsoft or Google, if nothing else then just for the talent.

> Docker was estimated to be valued at over $1 billion, making it what is called a "unicorn company", after a $95 million fundraising round in April 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker,_Inc .

The fact that they had a $95 million round in 2015 and then a $23 million round in 2021 leads me to believe their valuation is a lot lower now.

Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by [deleted] »

jeofken wrote: post #44
mark_and_sweep wrote: post #11

At first, I wanted to read the article. But having to wait more than one minute to submit my cookie preferences, I closed the tab and left. If anyone at Docker is reading this: Please reconsider your cookie banner implementation.

To muggles it can be explained line this: computers send letters to each other. Getting a webpage is sending a letter that says “can I please GET the document you call /mypage?”, where the other part replies “OK (200), by the way, next time you write, please include this token “ “, here is your document”. When I send the next letter, I (or my user agent) can chose to send along the cookie, or not. The server does not…

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Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by oefrha »

bredren wrote: post #23
abledon wrote: post #19

Thank god, someones gotta pay for the free container registry all my sideprojects depend on!

Have you tried GitHub packages?

Until GitHub Packages Docker Registry stops asking for authentication to pull public images, it might as well not exist to me. Have they resolved that?

Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by twox2 »

enumjorge wrote: post #60
neon_electro wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"govt" didn't develop the specific cookie banner implementation Docker is using.

Yeah the government is far from perfect, but people also treat it as a punching bag. It was companies who used the lack of regulation in tech to abuse cookies, and our government responded with regulation. And now some sites are implementing those rules in very annoying ways. Instead of getting mad at the party who is trying to protect you in this situation, how about directing that anger at the parties who caused th…

I disagree. It's the over-regulation that calls for these pain in the ass implementations.

Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by wongarsu »

random5634 wrote: post #33
mark_and_sweep wrote: post #11

At first, I wanted to read the article. But having to wait more than one minute to submit my cookie preferences, I closed the tab and left. If anyone at Docker is reading this: Please reconsider your cookie banner implementation.

These cookie banners are so annoying - govt messes this type of stuff over and over. Let me control cookies on my end, I can choose not to accept cookies using my own browser controls, or delete them after 1 hour etc.

Docker's implementation is instant if you accept, but takes an eternity if you only want essential cookies. That seems in violation of the ePrivacy directive which according to the official website [1] requires that you "Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place."

I guess it's for the courts to decide if requiring the same number of clicks but letting you wait for an eternity is equally easy, but I doubt it.

1: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

Re: Docker Raises $23M

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Post by littlecranky67 »

random5634 wrote: post #33
mark_and_sweep wrote: post #11

At first, I wanted to read the article. But having to wait more than one minute to submit my cookie preferences, I closed the tab and left. If anyone at Docker is reading this: Please reconsider your cookie banner implementation.

These cookie banners are so annoying - govt messes this type of stuff over and over. Let me control cookies on my end, I can choose not to accept cookies using my own browser controls, or delete them after 1 hour etc.

They dont need consent for cookies. They need consent for tracking
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