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by efuquen 4145 days ago
> At the same time as adding Docker support to Rocket, we have also opened a pull-request that enables Docker to run appc images (ACIs).

I really hope this lands and something constructive can come out of it. There is a lot more that can be gained by these communities working together and not promoting divisiveness.
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rohansingh 4145 days ago
Same here. It is a pretty huge PR though, without having gone through the usual design proposal process (i.e., https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md...).
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philips 4145 days ago
We wrote a proposal along with the PR: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/10777

Adding a PR with working code was simply to show that adding this feature is something that is possible. It is OK if nothing from this implementation gets merged.

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rohansingh 4145 days ago
Yup, saw that. I do hope you guys are able to figure it out and get things merged.
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userp 4145 days ago
> There is a lot more that can be gained by these communities working together and not promoting divisiveness.

Gained by who though? These are for-profit enterprises and there are real-money gains involved in controlling the spec. For better or worse, CoreOS controls the App Container spec and make no mistake that the primary reason they want it in Docker is because it benefits them. This of course does not exclude the possibility that users benefit.

Still, I'm of the opinion that all of this fighting behind the scenes (which, if you've been paying attention, this is) is kind of bad for everyone and a waste of resources.

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tbatchelli 4145 days ago
Competition is benefitting users and producing some relative waste of resources on each company. We are benefitting because at the end of the day the container world will be more open.

But I think that this VC-backed model might not be beneficial for OS as a business in the mid-long term. The race to $0 is greatly accelerated.

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eropple 4144 days ago
Do you think that the VC-backed model is good for open-source as an ecosystem, even if not a business? Because, watching the growth of Docker and CoreOS, I'm starting to wonder if it isn't just a tire fire for us at every level.
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tbatchelli 4141 days ago
Might send Open Source back to how it was pre-Red Hat. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know.
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AndrewHampton 4145 days ago
I agree, I think it would be much better for everyone if the two container specs merged.

However, after reading "This is a simple functional PR..." in the blog post, I was surprised to see the PR adds over 38k lines of code. Seems like that will take a while to review.

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shawnps 4145 days ago
Most of those lines added are appc getting vendorized
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