Who is dissent? Who is this 'Adam' guy?

No other posts on this 'python rants' blog, nothing else on HN?

IMO this is astroturfing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing )

Astroturfing generally requires a company backing the movement. Why would a company care enough about pip and virtualenvs and then want to hide that? I didn't see an alternative offered besides using existing open source tools.

docker.io comes to mind.

I actually did not know about this thread until you mentioned Docker in it.

And after reading it, I've realized I've been plain wrong in how I've been constructing my python related Docker containers.

Full disclosure: I love pip. I love virtualenv. I use them religiously.

I also work for the Docker team.

It's all genuine, just one guy who doesn't like virtualenv much. I started the blog just to have somewhere to post that. The person who mentioned names probably worked with me.

And who are you? No other posts, anonymous account, simply to call someone out and try to tie them to a company?

Full disclosure: Know 2 ex coworkers at Docker, no financial ties.