How Docker Was Born | StackShare

dotCloud set out to be a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider that would allow you to easily deploy and host apps in whatever language your app was written in. dotCloud always had an urge to open source their platform and so they started releasing the source code to their platform piece by piece. Once they released dotCloud's container engine as an open source project called Docker on HackerNews

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Dockerの開発者へのインタビュー、最後のほうの質問「Githubがgitに成したことと同じことをLinuxにしようとしているんでしょ?」