Maybe not, but considering how much they gave, I think we should want them to live on, and do what we can to help them. Do we really want to live in a world where a startup company makes as big an impact on the way we develop and deploy software as Docker did, only to have all possible business taken from it by bigger players?
I understand this sentiment, but a lot of the original team and the certainly the original founder aren’t even there anymore. Not to mention that a lot of Docker’s business missteps have been self inflicted wounds.
There have been lots of great technologies that haven’t directly made their creators rich, but their good legacy usually/eventually catches up with them.
So I agree with you about supporting good technology which you want to see survive.
I don't think the poster you're replying to was invoking a just world fallacy, however. I read it as saying that developers who build solid systems that people like tend to thrive, even if their business fails.
That appears to be true, and not because of karma, because top-tier developers are in very high demand. Demonstrating that you're one of those isn't the same thing as running a successful business.
Maybe not, but considering how much they gave, I think we should want them to live on, and do what we can to help them. Do we really want to live in a world where a startup company makes as big an impact on the way we develop and deploy software as Docker did, only to have all possible business taken from it by bigger players?