There’s no need for them to live on. There are open source alternatives that mimic Docker exactly. In fact on Fedora[1] the “docker” cli command is actually buildah and podman (you actually can’t install Docker on Fedora anymore - I genuinely haven’t noticed a difference). The commands are exactly the same right down to the command starting with the word “docker”.
I don’t wish them ill, but literally everything has been replicated. If they fail as a company it won’t matter to developers who don’t use their enterprise software.
I actually think the company isn’t long for this world. It wouldn’t surprise me if they got bought for a paltry sum in the next few years.
Their lasting legacy is that most software and people assume that a shortened container image points to docker.io.
I don’t wish them ill, but literally everything has been replicated. If they fail as a company it won’t matter to developers who don’t use their enterprise software.
I actually think the company isn’t long for this world. It wouldn’t surprise me if they got bought for a paltry sum in the next few years.
Their lasting legacy is that most software and people assume that a shortened container image points to docker.io.
1 https://fedoramagazine.org/docker-and-fedora-32/