It is and that's great, but changing the license never goes over well, especially for developers in a large company. I would have loved to just pay for DD, but

It is and that's great, but changing the license never goes over well, especially for developers in a large company. I would have loved to just pay for DD, but it's really hard to answer the question "this has been free for years, why should we pay for it now?". The bait-and-switch also feels pretty insidious to a lot of developers, please refer to when Oracle did the same thing with their JVM implementation. I've also found that a lot of large enterprises have had big difficulties on hammering out licensing terms with Docker. When it's a product you actively use, that means the devs will either wait for shit to hit the fan or start looking at alternatives, and find that there are still free competitors (Rancher Desktop, Podman, Minikube depending on your use-case). IMO, it would have been a whole lot better if the Desktop product had been paid to begin with, rather than being suddenly switched as a last minute monetization strategy.