Bullshit. I can use docker without the docker hub very easily. Anyone can host docker images, and docker allows this, no weird hacks needed.

Docker does not lock you in with the docker hub though. So no hostage taking.

They will shame you, for your messy code. People suck sometimes.

No (or very limited) editing in Okular…

The micro USB standard was also an EU thing, just voluntary, and not just for Apple.

Yes, but under treath of lawmakers mandating a single standard. And the EU has now forced a single standard anyway on smartphones, tablets, etc.

Although I agree that there are quite a few examples of a “naturally emerging” single standards without lawmaker intervention, but this is not really one of them…

Yes