That might be possible for soemthing that "only" writes and distributes software (that can also work on levels of success much less stellar than sqlite), but wh

That might be possible for soemthing that "only" writes and distributes software (that can also work on levels of success much less stellar than sqlite), but when you try to pull off hosting services at internet scale like docker hub did, with some free tiers, it's just not feasible to include it all in the bills of user subset that is actually willing and able to pay. The playbook is always the same: "maybe we could do that high impact free tier if we had more funding?" and that "whatever it is they're trying to be" is an implicit consequence of that, that ambition comes with the funding. "just a small company" mean bootstrapped, and bulk hosting like docker hub would simply not happen.