Comment by lou1306 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lou1306 | Hacker News Reader

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> Countless other tools and workflows and experiences have been built on that free assumption of availability

Cannot help but notice that, had Microsoft offered such a sweet deal, this place would've been ablaze with cries of "Embrace, extend, extinguish" and suchlike. (This still regularly happens, e.g., when new Github features are announced). Perhaps even justifiably so, but the community has failed to apply that kind of critical thinking to any other company involved in open source. If your workflow is not agnostic wrt where you pull images from, it is kind of silly to blame it on Docker Inc.

Having said that, it is definitely a problem for many. I work at a technical university and I am sure colleges/research institutes will hit the limit repeatedly and easily.

Too right. Now I'm starting to wonder how long my gmail account will remain free, and for that matter how long my HN account will remain free.

Well, neither of them store and serve multi-gigabyte files, so probably longer than docker hub?

Not a new concept. If you aren't paying you are the product. Increasingly capitalism demands the product also pay. Buckle up, late stage capitalism continues.

Sometimes you're the product, other times you're the raw material ready to be crushed up into a fine powder and mixed with 20 additives known only by numbers, and thoroughly homogenized to make the product.

"Late stage capitalism" doesn't exist. There are only consumers that exercise their rights as consumers (as in decades past) and those that don't (as now). If you don't do anything about companies treating you badly, then don't get surprised when they do.

The data mining is probably too profitable to ever lose customers over required paid gmail accounts.

Its so easy and yet…you can’t be bothered to maintain the registry and ecosystem. I have an idea, why not pay someone to do it?

I can't seem to parse this reply. I never said any of it was easy. Quite the opposite, in fact. The community was all too happy to embrace an ecosystem provided by a for-profit company just precisely because it made things easy (and the company was not Microsoft).

And I am not saying Docker is wrong to try and monetize. People have built entire business models on top of way more mundane things than the Docker Hub.

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