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engadget is not a credible source for any news...

Ask Patents has some good information, but also a lot of bad information or just plain wrong claims by rando's on the internet.

The USPTO has their own internal databases they look to for research information.

People really need to stop always quoting Joel - he is not a definitive go-to software spokesperson, and has some very strong (and often wrong) opinions about things -- shaped by years at Microsoft doing things only the Microsoft way.

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He is puffing his product in this blog post -- nothing more.

Well, Docker just slapped a "1.0" sticker on and called itself "production ready" when it clearly wasn't (features like in this 1.2 release are kind of mandatory for any serious deployments).

This seems to be the real 1.0 release...