Docker didn’t try to cover up the fact that it paid out $799 through 99designs for the logo, which people voted for in a poll; the company even described the process in a June 2013 blog post.

Docker held a fundraiser in which Roderic Mast, president of The Oceanic Society – a nonprofit founded in the 1960s to protect ocean life – spoke about ocean conservation and how container ...

I was, of course, basing my concept of Docker entirely on the Docker logo, which is sort of a whale / boat hybrid, filled to the brim with shipping containers.