Looks like the new ceo has a track record of selling open source companies. It's likely docker would be up for sale in one or two years time.

Bearden was CEO of Hortonworks since 2012, almost 7 years before the Cloudera acquisition. Before that, Springsource for 4.

I don't know Singh's reasons behind getting out, but Bearden doesn't seem to play the short game often, he's more of a long-term Open Source strategist.

It says something when we consider 4-7 years to be the "long term".

Running an open source business is very different than a proprietary one. The new CEO is filling those gaps.

Well, this happened right after the news about one of docker's databases being compromised, so perhaps he is being scapegoated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763413

That was my first thought, but they should have waited just a little longer so it looks like it was at least a thought-out decision, or put this announcement on hold for 6 weeks so no one's asking this question.

There is practically 0 chance this is the case. Accountability doesn't work that way at Docker.