I suspect that dockerhub isn't the part that bleeds money, I suspect like many tech companies the part that bleeds money is sales costs and developer costs (see

I suspect that dockerhub isn't the part that bleeds money, I suspect like many tech companies the part that bleeds money is sales costs and developer costs (see gitlab). Unfortunately I can't prove that though. Docker downsized from 400(!) to 60 people a few years back, and a quick search on Google says they're now back up at 600 employees again. They have ARR of $50M [0] , which is probably a little short of paying 60 people SV salaries, but it's nowhere near enough to pay for 600 people. As regards to the registry problem, "most companies" I suspect don't follow best practices and in fact do end up using docker hub for things like public images, but more importantly _there is no way to enforce this in the tool, and docker have refused to implement this when given a PR_. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reaching-over-50m-in-arr/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/docker-makes-comeback-reac...