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Docker's Second Death

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Re: Docker's Second Death

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Docker Inc's antagonistic attitude towards Red Hat and personal attacks on their engineers was the beginning of the end for them. The people who really headlined those attacks are now gone, but the damage was done. Docker made it clear from the beginning they had no desire to be part of a community and now the community is leaving them behind. Good riddance.

Re: Docker's Second Death

#8

Docker Inc's antagonistic attitude towards Red Hat and personal attacks on their engineers was the beginning of the end for them. The people who really headlined those attacks are now gone, but the damage was done. Docker made it clear from the beginning they had no desire to be part of a community and now the community is leaving them behind. Good riddance.

Any good source/summary of the above? I guess I'm out of the loop, but attacking a company as trusted as Red Hat seems a bad idea.

Re: Docker's Second Death

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post #6

So, what's the better business model for a low-level piece of infrastructure like Docker?

Really, there is none. After reading through so many of these types of threads, I'm convinced there is no sustainable business model for open source infrastructure.

The best bet would be to build proprietary paid services on top of the open source infrastructure. See Laravel's projects.

Re: Docker's Second Death

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post #6

So, what's the better business model for a low-level piece of infrastructure like Docker?

Docker, Inc. has the opportunity to be the NPM, Inc. for container images. How much did NPM sell to GitHub for?

Less concretely, is there a business model for a low-level piece of infrastructure like Docker? Is there a business model for ncurses or readline or df or ls?

"Real world" infrastructure is typically high capex, low margin. How many VC-funded startups build bridges or tunnels? SpaceX is pivoting to Starlink to find good margins and escape the fate of being a trucking company to space.

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