> Ultimately, if people wanted to create [text files], it's entirely possible to do with pure linux commands with no upper level software at all, it's just [Sublime Text] makes it much easier/nicer to achieve.
It's absolutely possible (see: Bocker), but not a very productive way to go about things. It's much more productive to take an existing technology and make it better than to start from scratch (yet again), especially with permissive licenses like those used in Docker Engine.
possibly although unless they got a decent number of the original developers across in a fork (Which seems somewhat unlikely) it would be a pretty difficult thing to pull off to maintain/develop the codebase.
Not sure I can think of a case where a fork has been successful without a decent percentage of the original developers supporting it.
It's absolutely possible (see: Bocker), but not a very productive way to go about things. It's much more productive to take an existing technology and make it better than to start from scratch (yet again), especially with permissive licenses like those used in Docker Engine.