A difference between the Linux movement and the Kubernetes ecosystem is that most of the open-source tooling developed for K8s is built by venture-funded startups (e.g. Istio or Envoy). And the endgame of these companies is almost always an open-core product that is functional but in practice just broken enough to not be usable without buying premium support or the enterprise edition.
So I'm a bit skeptical about the long-term viability of the platform. Personally I think we'll see new paradigms emerge that will mostly obsolete containers and complex orchestration platforms, you can e.g. already see some pretty interesting ideas around WASM. Before Kubernetes OpenStack was the big thing, but now it's mostly used as a substrate to run Kubernetes on.
So I'm a bit skeptical about the long-term viability of the platform. Personally I think we'll see new paradigms emerge that will mostly obsolete containers and complex orchestration platforms, you can e.g. already see some pretty interesting ideas around WASM. Before Kubernetes OpenStack was the big thing, but now it's mostly used as a substrate to run Kubernetes on.