Hi verdverm,
You are technically right that Docker changed their stance since their original announcement.
But they committed to remove all images within 30 days, and I think you'll find that's the understanding that many had - in fact there were hundreds of Hacker News comments because of this.
We brought it forward so we could handle the fall-out outside of KubeCon which would fall during the date of the deletion.
Since their original statement they have done a U-Turn and won't delete images from open source organisations.
But it's already too late - many maintainers like myself have already had to take action. Because we took Docker Inc. at their word.
Hope this helps?
Alex