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Let me say it; I love to see it. There's just something that strikes me as harmfully greedy about the idea of "Docker, a gajillion dollar company." There's just no way that THAT kind of service could be tweaked to return that much to stakeholders without seriously screwing up the experience for people who need it to just work.
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Is there something I'm missing on the Docker story? Seems like they built something that everyone uses as an integral part of their workflow, and they're looking to get paid for it, which, I may be out of date here, was the entire ethos of this entire site for quite some time. Did the founder of Docker kick a bunch of puppies or something? Is there some reason I'm missing why we should be angry about being asked to pay for something that everyone uses for everything and derives a lot of value from?

(This isn't to take away from Rancher, by the way - good on 'em, I'm all for competition in developer tools)

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Why? Docker provided a lot of value for free, screwed up their own business model and almost went bankrupt before being bought for scraps by Mirantis.

Then they still make their technology available for free (that's right, docker is still free and they donated all the important stuff) and start asking money for just the wrapping and UI stuff in desktop. And just for big corps who can afford it. And still they get a lot of flak for it!

These people just can't get a break. I don't understand why a lot of people in OSS community hate on them so much. What is up with that?

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Right, because Rancher Labs is not a gajillion dollar company: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rancher-labs
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"Docker, a gajillion dollar company" - LOL they barely get along.

While I love Docker as a dev tool putting all strings into your hand to juggle customer environments, I fail to see the use case of Docker on Macs and Windows, which I'm understanding what Docker desktop is about. After all, docker images are about saving the resources/memory for a full VM and using Linux kernel-level compartments instead.

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They have failed to monetize one of the most important products on the web development. They have never provided profits. I don’t know about the greedy part, it is more about survival at this point. That is capitalism.
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