Docker Says Absolutely Not to Collaboration on Standard Container Specification

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9538#issuecomment-65967102

by Alupis • 12 years ago

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It might be worth pointing out that Alupis (OP), and Shykes (Docker creator), have had somewhat of a flame war on HN since Rocket was announced.

Alupis2• 12 years ago

I wouldn't really call it a flame war... more or less pointing out issues with Docker the company. I feel it's greatly important since container technology is poised to become a very big thing in the Unix ecosystem and we should take a moment to think about the motives of a commercial for-profit company such as Docker, before we embed it into everything. Shykes seems to take issue with me pointing these things out, as I would expect him to.

Anyway, that does not change the content of Shykes' message on Github, which makes it outstandingly clear he, and Docker, have absolutely zero intention of collaborating openly on a standardized container format. They had zero intention of creating a standard format prior to the Rocket announcement, and just last night have published their own proprietary and incompatible specification which they now call the standard.

That's not collaboration...

fluidcruft• 12 years ago

Is there anything technically wrong with the Docker format, or do you just have doses of Lovecraftian fear and uncertainty to offer?

debacle2• 12 years ago

It was a PR filtered flame war.

debacle2• 12 years ago

They didn't say no, they just said they wouldn't spend effort conforming to a 3 day old standard that no one was using.

That just makes business sense.

katabatic• 12 years ago

Irrespective of the public back & forth between Docker and CoreOS, that's a completely reasonable stance to take. Standards need to be proven in the real world before being adopted. That's why the ANSI and ISO standardization process takes so much time (EDIT: or at least, one of the reasons).

When you write "standards" without implementation, what you get is the Object Management Group, which published spec after spec that are impossible to actually implement.

Docker Says Absolutely Not to Collaboration on Standard Container Specification

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