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Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative

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Re: Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative

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jmnicolas wrote: post #123
windexh8er wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It doesn't matter if very few people use it -- it's presence prevents its much bigger privately-owned brother(s) from doing terrible things. I'm going to assume that "bigger privately-owned brother(s)" you're referring to Docker? If so, ironic given all of the evil things RedHat and IBM do in the OSS realm.

What evil things? (honest question) I was burned by the CentOS shenanigans but I'm not aware of anything else. And my beef with CentOS is the way they handled it, if they had left me enough time to migrate my servers we'd still be cool.

Oh I meant Microsoft and Apple as the evil bigger brothers in the case of Linux, and Docker in the case of Podman?

Re: Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative

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windexh8er wrote: post #45
jrm4 wrote: post #38

Big picture, it feels like Podman is essential the same way Linux used to be.* It doesn't matter if very few people use it -- it's presence prevents its much bigger privately-owned brother(s) from doing terrible things. *(I say "used to be" because Linux is now even more essential and central, not less.)

> It doesn't matter if very few people use it -- it's presence prevents its much bigger privately-owned brother(s) from doing terrible things. I'm going to assume that "bigger privately-owned brother(s)" you're referring to Docker? If so, ironic given all of the evil things RedHat and IBM do in the OSS realm.

Yup -- and a fair point. It also makes me think of Facebook/Meta leaking their LLMs? But hey, I think this was actually healthy competition - supported by things that end up being "free and/or open" even if that isn't the primary intent of the spreaders or creators.
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