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More likely they disrupted their users and now people are switching off them and hedging against the risk of docker doing disruptive things. They aren’t quite

• imiric 4y ago
  And organizations that don't switch, will begrudgingly pay up to avoid impacting their users, but will be left with a sour taste as they've essentially been blackmailed into paying. There's no way they're turning these orgs into long-term customers. Especially now when there are plenty of alternative image hosts. I don't get why they couldn't charge by usage, or have more granular tiers. For small teams and projects $300/yr is not an insignificant amount. What a tonedeaf and greedy decision, communicated in a terribly unclear way.
  • jen20 4y ago
    Just like Amazon released Finch as a response to the conversion of Docker Desktop to pay-only software, no doubt one of the big players will take advantage of this too.
  • Symbiote 4y ago
    The cost difference between projects must be enormous. Some comments in this discussing refer to projects with many millions of hits. Mine has 5000. A free tier with 10GB of image storage and some small number of pulls per month would be fine.
• coredog64 4y ago
  The aggressive data retention requirements for the Docker client was the last straw for a lot of enterprises.