(co-founder here) Of course your perspective on DigigalOcean is valid but we think of it simply as a good philosophy to deliver a VM to a user in a seamless, straightforward way - that's the part that we want achieve and let users to self-host. Essentially, you could build your own DigitalOcean using VirtKick. Does it make sense for you? Doesn't mean you should rush and start your own business .. you can run it privately for your own needs or for your company's needs.
I honestly value DO for the service of providing VMs, and I don't care to run my private VMs. We also have dedicated servers, which run docker directly.
(co-founder here) we try to not get ahead of ourselves, working on the basics first but it's sometimes nice to think big as well and you have some interesting ideas sir, thanks!
(co-founder here) The backend will be ruby as well, we used webvirtmgr only as a means to kickstart the project and have something usable quickly. :) On a general note though we aren't afraid to mix languages. For example node.js is used to handle web sockets for the VNC console as well as for the starter application.
I am sure any ambiguous licensing can be covered by some explicit statements, like what it applies to exactly and to what it doesn't. Good point though!
LXC is not on immediate roadmap but is very much doable since it is supported by libvirt which we already use. You can open an issue on our Github to track its progress, no promises though. :)
