[skwashd]

A few times I've wondered, where would Docker Inc be today if Microsoft acquired them back in 2017?

Early 2017 was peak Docker and Docker Inc. Those were the days. Container hype was everywhere. Before moby. Before all the pivots.

Microsoft was embracing open source and the cloud. They were acquiring dev tools.

It was a missed opportunity for both companies.

[hamdingers]

They probably would've kept autobuilds free for open source and I wouldn't have switched to GHCR and Github Actions for all my projects. Seems Microsoft got my "business" anyway.

[eigencoder]

I don't want Microsoft's fingers all over docker -- if anything that would have accelerated the rise of e.g. podman