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by jrm4 885 days ago
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.)
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windexh8er 885 days ago
> 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.

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jmnicolas 884 days ago
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.

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jrm4 884 days ago
Oh I meant Microsoft and Apple as the evil bigger brothers in the case of Linux, and Docker in the case of Podman?
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jrm4 884 days ago
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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