<story><title>Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know</title><url>https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development, every now and then I have a moan about the hassle of getting something bootstrapped to run on Docker, but it&amp;#x27;s still worlds better than the old ways of managing dependencies and making sure everyone on a project is aligned on what versions of things are installed.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying, this is the latest in a long line of decisions that are clearly being made because they can&amp;#x27;t work out how to build a business around what is at it&amp;#x27;s core a nice UI for Linux containers. My hope is that before the inevitable shuttering of Docker Inc another organisations (ideally a coop of some variety, but that&amp;#x27;s probably wishful thinking) pops up to take over the bits that matter, and then hopefully we can all stop trying to keep up with the latest way in which our workflows have been broken to try and make a few dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Docker should have been a neat tool made by one enthusiast, just like curl is.&lt;p&gt;Instead it has a multi-million dollar company behind it, and VC&amp;#x27;s who demand profits from a thing that shouldn&amp;#x27;t have ever had a business plan.</text></comment>
<story><title>Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know</title><url>https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development, every now and then I have a moan about the hassle of getting something bootstrapped to run on Docker, but it&amp;#x27;s still worlds better than the old ways of managing dependencies and making sure everyone on a project is aligned on what versions of things are installed.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying, this is the latest in a long line of decisions that are clearly being made because they can&amp;#x27;t work out how to build a business around what is at it&amp;#x27;s core a nice UI for Linux containers. My hope is that before the inevitable shuttering of Docker Inc another organisations (ideally a coop of some variety, but that&amp;#x27;s probably wishful thinking) pops up to take over the bits that matter, and then hopefully we can all stop trying to keep up with the latest way in which our workflows have been broken to try and make a few dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spicyusername</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    ideally a coop of some variety
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This is the role I feel like podman, the tool developed by Red Hat, is filling.</text></comment>