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A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components

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Re: A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components

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Why change the name? All the books and posts reference the name Docker.

It looks like they want to rename the OSS version, to differentiate it from their commercial version. They're using the analogy of Fedora->RHEL.

Moby = open source development Docker CE = free product release based on Moby Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker CE.

Re: A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components

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More information can be found there: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/32691

> Docker is transitioning all of its open source collaborations to the Moby project going forward.

Should I understand that the core team wants to keep the brand "Docker" but use it in a commercial way, while Moby will be the underlying open source code?

Is it Docker/Moby = RHEL/Fedora ? or Docker/Moby = Mongodb.com/Mongodb.org?

Re: A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components

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post #4
post #2

Why change the name? All the books and posts reference the name Docker.

It looks like they want to rename the OSS version, to differentiate it from their commercial version. They're using the analogy of Fedora->RHEL. Moby = open source development Docker CE = free product release based on Moby Docker EE = commercial product release based on Docker CE.

Why doesn't the open-source predecessor have precedence?
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