This is the internet and just about everyone could be diagnosed with Not Invented Here syndrome. First one to get recognition for creating something that's already been created is just a popular meme.
Solomon was the CEO of dotCloud. Sébastien the CTO. I (François-Xavier "bombela") was one of the first software engineer employee. Along with Andrea, Jérôme and Louis with Sam as our manager.
When it became clear that we had reached the limits of our existing buggy code, I pushed hard to get to work on the replacement. After what seemed an eternity pitching Solomon, I was finally allowed to work on it.
I wrote the design doc of Docker with the help of Andrea, Jérôme, Louis and Gabriel. I implemented the prototype in Python. To this day, three of us will still argue who really choose the name Docker. We are very good friends.
Not long after, I left the company. Because I was under paid, I could barely make ends meet at the time. I had to borrow money to see a doctor. I did not mind, it's the start-up life, am I right? I worked 80h/week happy. But then I realized not everybody was under paid. And other companies would pay me more for less work. When I asked, Solomon refused to pay me more, and after being denied three times, I quit. I never got any shares. I couldn't afford to buy the options anyways, and they had delayed the paperwork multiple times, such that I technically quit before the vesting started. I went to Google, were they showered me with cash in comparison. The next morning after my departure from dotCloud, Solomon raised everybody's salary. My friends took me to dinner to celebrate my sacrifice.
I am not privy to all the details after I left. But here is what I know. Andrea rewrote Docker in Go. It was made open source. Solomon even asked me to participate as an external contributor. For free of course. As a gesture to let me add my name to the commit history. Probably the biggest insult I ever received in life.
dotCloud was renamed Docker. The original dotCloud business was sold to a German company for the customers.
I believe Solomon saw the potential of Docker for all, and not merely an internal detail within a distributed system designed to orchestrate containers. My vision was extremely limited, and focused on reducing the suffering of my oncall duties.
A side story: the German company transfered to me the trademark of zerorpc, the open source network library powering dotCloud. I had done a lot of work on it. Solomon refused to hand me off the empty github/zerorpc group he was squatting. He offered to grant me access but retain control. I went for github/0rpc instead. I did not have time nor money to spend on a lawyer.
By this point you might think I have a vendetta against a specific individual. I can assure you that I tried hard to paint things fairly with a flattering light.
inetknght|1 year ago
This is the internet and just about everyone could be diagnosed with Not Invented Here syndrome. First one to get recognition for creating something that's already been created is just a popular meme.
bombela|1 year ago
When it became clear that we had reached the limits of our existing buggy code, I pushed hard to get to work on the replacement. After what seemed an eternity pitching Solomon, I was finally allowed to work on it.
I wrote the design doc of Docker with the help of Andrea, Jérôme, Louis and Gabriel. I implemented the prototype in Python. To this day, three of us will still argue who really choose the name Docker. We are very good friends.
Not long after, I left the company. Because I was under paid, I could barely make ends meet at the time. I had to borrow money to see a doctor. I did not mind, it's the start-up life, am I right? I worked 80h/week happy. But then I realized not everybody was under paid. And other companies would pay me more for less work. When I asked, Solomon refused to pay me more, and after being denied three times, I quit. I never got any shares. I couldn't afford to buy the options anyways, and they had delayed the paperwork multiple times, such that I technically quit before the vesting started. I went to Google, were they showered me with cash in comparison. The next morning after my departure from dotCloud, Solomon raised everybody's salary. My friends took me to dinner to celebrate my sacrifice.
I am not privy to all the details after I left. But here is what I know. Andrea rewrote Docker in Go. It was made open source. Solomon even asked me to participate as an external contributor. For free of course. As a gesture to let me add my name to the commit history. Probably the biggest insult I ever received in life.
dotCloud was renamed Docker. The original dotCloud business was sold to a German company for the customers.
I believe Solomon saw the potential of Docker for all, and not merely an internal detail within a distributed system designed to orchestrate containers. My vision was extremely limited, and focused on reducing the suffering of my oncall duties.
A side story: the German company transfered to me the trademark of zerorpc, the open source network library powering dotCloud. I had done a lot of work on it. Solomon refused to hand me off the empty github/zerorpc group he was squatting. He offered to grant me access but retain control. I went for github/0rpc instead. I did not have time nor money to spend on a lawyer.
By this point you might think I have a vendetta against a specific individual. I can assure you that I tried hard to paint things fairly with a flattering light.
icedchai|1 year ago