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The unstated assumption of this announcement is that if you haven't heard of Docker, you may have been living under a rock. It arguably has more hype after two years than Java did in 1996-97.

The other part of the problem is that this is a rapidly evolving space with a ton of money and attention being pored into engineering and competitive battles playing out, and not so much in the marketing and clear explanations. runC is in part a symbolic "bury the hatchet" moment for a public feud over standards with CoreOS and others that began in December 2014. If you haven't been following the inside baseball, it it's all kind of confusing.