That's a good point. I never thought of that before, unfortunately I tend to pickup bad habits like that by watching the way others write. Though I do have to wonder if the Docker team would have used that term were it not already a registered trademark. I suppose it does sound a little silly.

that's not your bad habit, that's just how language evolves naturally. like I said, a pet peeve. the part that makes me twitch is that the evolution of the term is happening in a hobbyist community, where I've never heard a professional use the term. when I read it it doesn't make linguistic since to me -- a "Docker" is not a thing, what is its plural?

anyway, you do you.

I regularly cringe when people refer to "Docker images" as "containers" but this is a step further.

That’s close to the usage of “screen saver” to mean wallpaper/background image and those people who think MAC and Mac are the same.