[vidarh]

Consider that appc was basically a tactical move from CoreOS to force Docker to play ball and address concerns they had, or face unwelcome competition.

OpenContainers addresses one of the fundamental issues already with the initial "runc" tool - namely the issue of playing nicely with Systemd and not requiring a separate daemon.

It also appears to be headed towards addressing a second one: A spec.

It would also seem that what's there so far with 'runc' could easily be used as part of an appc implementation easily enough, and conversely, there seems to be little reason why this couldn't be supported by appc implementations (or others, like LXC).

So what we're (hopefully) getting is a compromise that lets people compete on value adds rather than fighting over the basics.