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Not sure how this changes anything.

Their open source program [1] only grants a free 1-year Docker Team subscription. After which time the whole system is unusable. And most of those features aren't what open source teams even need which is surely just basic multi-user access.

They really should have just tightened the entry criteria for their open source offering if they were so concerned about it being misused.

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-sponsored-open-source-pro...

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Too little, too late, everyone i know is looking for ways of leaving docker for good. This last announcement just cemented the lack of confidence in the platform. As someone put it to me recently:» a bunch of execs trying to squeeze out a dying platform for a bonus before moving to another money sqeezing project.» At work we made the plan to leave today.

(Docker DevRel team here) For clarification, the program grants one year of access, but is indefinitely renewable as long as the program is still compliant with current criteria.

Thank you for the clarification. For reference, are there any open source projects you've seen that suddenly change course to being paid products and would lose open source status according to Docker? Any Linux distros that suddenly went closed source? Are there any sort of general public licenses that might preclude projects from even doing so?

Say a distro sells laptops with the distro pre-installed while also providing the same image online and might also sell consulting services to companies utilizing the distro. According to my undestanding of the terms of Docker's opend source program, even if said distro was fully open-source and a run by a non-profit they would be non-eligible to participate in the program.

Is this renewal automatic? Having to go recertify with docker once a year for my tiny open source project that we happen to have an image for is literally infinity percent more hassle than I would like to deal with.

I think I read that it prohibits making money, like consulting on the OSS product. This prohibits a lot of OSS teams.

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