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Re:Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO by zwischenzug on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:31PM (#19861607)
They tried that when I worked for an $enterprise. But refused to support any RedHat-based images running on their engine. They also refused to license any of their products separately, seeming desperate to get a tax on any server on which Docker ran.

Neither of these went down well. RedHat had that market sewn up, and swatted Docker away like an irritating fly.

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Re:Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO by adictator on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:05PM (#19862926)
> But refused to support any RedHat-based images running on their engine.

You seem to have gotten that mixed. It was RedHat that refused to support anything (including their RHEL based images) on the docker platform unless it was run on the Red Hat's franken docker. It was RedHat that chose to not play fair, not Docker.

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