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Genuine question: do you think people creating software that’s incredibly valuable for you should’t get paid? You had it for free for a long time? Lucky you!
by holografix 4y ago
Genuine question: do you think people creating software that’s incredibly valuable for you should’t get paid?
You had it for free for a long time? Lucky you!
- cogman10 4y agoI don't think anyone has a problem with that. The problem is really more one of "we operated so long without paying and now, blam, everyone pays next year". It'd be sort of like if github deciding "You know what, everyone now needs to pay $7 a month/user for github". Perfectly within their right, but also a little bit of whiplash for a large number of people. The next question is if this will last. There's already competitors to docker (rancher/podman/various k8s on my box things).
- nine_k 4y agoExactly! They decided that you would rather pay than migrate off it, so they can start charging, and stop leaving substantial money on the table. It seems that their assumptions were correct.
- mdeeks 4y agoIt feels like a bait and switch. They got us hooked on a free product and then slapped us with a bill and only short time to change all of our software to not use it if we didn't want to. Also the pricing jumped up the longer you waited to sign. So we had little time to evaluate Rancher and others. I do agree it is a product that is potentially worth paying for. I do NOT think that the product is worth the amount we were suddenly forced to pay. It felt like extortion.