I have no foot in either game here (not sure about the parent commenter to this response), so hopefully you'll take this as a suggestion and not an attack... You are being part of the problem here. HN can only maintain the kind of relationship with commenters and posters that you talk about if as someone in the tech industry, you don't attack your competitors. Doing so brings you to the same standing as the kinds of people commenting that you say are ruining the site.

I've seen you post several times all in regards to this CoreOS stuff and NONE of it has been constructive. I think you need to take a step back and understand that HN is a public facing site and that the things you say here have a very real impact on how people view you and your product. Essentially you are harming your company by posting things like this.

Take CoreOS going their separate way as a teachable moment rather than an attack on you (even if behind the scenes it was?) and learn from it. Move on and build a great product by seeing your weak points from your competitors and learning, not by posting bile that you so willingly claim against others. If what you are building is as amazing as you want other people to believe; show them through your actions and by building an amazing piece of software. There's plenty of room for competition in a quickly emerging market. Essentially, if you can't say anything good then you are only harming yourself.

> Docker and CoreOS might be competitors, and we might disagree on many things (ethics in particular)

I can't believe you, the founder and creator of Docker and Dotcloud, just called the CoreOS team unethical.

Your "contributions" to this thread are the very kind of thing that makes me want to stay as far away from Docker as possible. Well done.