[robertlagrant]

> My suggestion is therefore that we need independent solutions, that are fully funded as a charity, and stop relying on freemium services from corporations that fundamentally don't care about the public good.

We had that already, but none of them invented Docker.

> If you want free stuff, is your strategy to smear them into giving you more free stuff?

They seem happy to pay; they were complaining (validly) about the process of renewing DSOS.

[8organicbits]

> none of them invented Docker

I think that depends on what you mean by docker. Lots of similar things existed before, just less formalized and less centralized.

[robertlagrant]

But there's a reason why Docker was so successful - a single file that could define a deployment and tooling to build it into a runnable artefact was incredibly useful. From the future tech useful.

If you can name these other similar solutions created by charities I can probably me more specific.

[8organicbits]

I think of Docker as a well executed and well-timed formalization of existing tools. It put a name to a collection of engineering concepts. This is why people can build Docker in N lines of shell script. Jails existed in the late 90s. IaC had multiple options before Docker.

[larntz]

Which makes me wonder, would docker have gained traction if they didn't offer free registry services?