CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket by wmf on Monday December 01, 2014 @06:59PM (#8684913)

IMO rewriting something from scratch is like forking but worse because it's impossible to merge later. And Rocket is definitely forking the Docker community.

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Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket by ffk on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @12:38AM (#8685871)

By this definition, linux is a fork of windows and is inferior because it cannot be merged back to windows.

Often, starting from scratch is better. This is especially true when the goals or philosophy of the two projects are fundamentally different and incompatible, even if they perform similar tasks. Again, linux vs windows example applies.

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Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket by girvo on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:22PM (#8685175)

If it can't be merged, it's not a fork, that's the key part of forks (well, not entirely, but the lack of shared code means it's not a fork by my definition).

That said, you're on point: this is forking the community. A hard fork, too.

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Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket by Aeoxic on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:04PM (#8685117)

That's great, except forks can be merged later.

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Re:CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket by wmf on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @12:00AM (#8685800)

Yes, that's what I said.

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