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Re:What I found wrong in Docker 1.12 by brianwawok on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:38AM (#12365739)
No. Programmers want huge paychecks but everyone ELSE should be FOSS and code for us for free
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Re:What I found wrong in Docker 1.12 by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:44AM (#12366144)
ahem Free software does not need to be gratis. There are several examples of companies which charge money for free software.
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Re:What I found wrong in Docker 1.12 by softawre on Friday August 26, 2016 @10:01AM (#12366288)
ahem That's obviously not what is being discussed here.

> It would be great for AWS if Docker simply focused on open source bug-fixing and let AWS provide the profitable services....

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Re:What I found wrong in Docker 1.12 by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2016 @10:05AM (#12366328)
I was responding to the specific, sarcastic, wording of this line "Programmers want huge paychecks but everyone ELSE should be FOSS and code for us for free".
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Re:What I found wrong in Docker 1.12 by brianwawok on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:01PM (#12367596)
And I said FOSS not gratis with intent. Perhaps could have made it FOSS and Gratis.

Devs are mad ITunes is closed source. Mad windows is closed source. But happy to get a big paycheck if they work at Microsoft or Apple.

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Re:What I found wrong in Docker 1.12 by cyphar on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:59PM (#12370137)
> But happy to get a big paycheck if they work at Microsoft or Apple.

I wouldn't ever want to work for a proprietary software company. But I admit that I'm on the extreme end on this debate.

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