We started Flatcar Container Linux to provide the option of continuing as is. We don't like to see perfectly good software be discarded simply because of an acquisition. We understand the hassle with porting configurations and have found a good number of organizations who are supporting our effort through support contracts to continue in the manner they intended when they chose to use CoreOS Container Linux.

We also released the update service as an open source project, Nebraska (https://github.com/kinvolk/nebraska). That was something that was closed source with CoreOS. This allows you to be in control of your updates.