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Are there any companies like Docker? They feel like such a Black Swan to me; namely -- "billions" + very useful + pretty much "not evil" at all. I literally can't think of any others.

I don't mean "literally evil" of course, I personally acknowledge the need to make money et al, but I mean it even seems like your most Stallman-esque types wouldn't have too much of a problem with Docker?

>>jrm4+(OP)
Netflix?

>>jrm4+(OP)
While I have no problem with Docker, it probably is worth noting that their entire product is based on a decade and a half of Google engineering invested into the Linux kernel (cgroups).

Not that that demeans or devalues Docker, but it contextualizes its existence as an offshoot of a Google project that aimed to make it possible (and did, but only internally)

>>throwa+Ni
Don't know why this was downvoted, I tend to agree. There's a clear relationship between the money and the product. Pay money, receive access to a bunch of shows. (as opposed to, e.g. SEO click-view advertising shadiness)

>>ynx+7p
So is OpenAI actually, GPT -> transformer, invented at Google. DALL-E -> diffusion, invented at ... Google.

>>jrm4+(OP)
> Are there any companies like Docker?

Let's hope not.

> "not evil" at all

Sarcasm?

>>jankey+pJ
Seems like maybe many of their products are mediocre and short-lived but their engineering and research are top-notch.

>>goodpo+kV
What's evil about Docker (the company)?

>>DiggyJ+s41
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013865

>>matt_h+md1
The bait and switch was not nice but there's more...

>>goodpo+kV
Not awesome, but nowhere near the definite evil I've seen from Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, etc....

>>throwa+Ni
The CEO declared sleep their competitor.

>>matt_h+md1
That is very far away from my personal definition of the word "evil".