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I was a manager at Deloitte in their tech consulting practice. I led fairly large teams of devs based in India. This is very true, and it takes a lot of time and trust-building to overcome. Making Indian devs, especially early-career ones, comfortable enough to oppose something or offer feedback is non-trivial, and often Indian engineering managers make it more difficult. Overcoming cultural hierarchy is hard.
Note: I train gi and no gi and have been for almost 10 years. My biggest injury happened in the gi (broken hand), but I've had significantly more ankle and knee sprains and shoulder dislocations in no gi. Also, the morning after no gi feels like I got hit by a truck compared to the morning after gi.
At Earthly, a few years ago, the founder and CEO had these same concerns about big cloud providers and switched to a source available license. There was backlash, and after around a year, we switched back to open source. We've discussed things like this a lot, and believe an open source license is best for our product, our users, and our business.
The way that we differ from Hashicorp, Redis, and others that have switched to source available licenses is that the service we offer and generate revenue from isn't just a hosted version of our OSS. It's several services that natively integrate with our OSS but are not open source. This seems like one of the only ways a company that maintains popular OSS can survive without switching licenses: build great OSS that users love, build non-OSS services that integrate with and augment your OSS (and/or open up new use cases), and charge for those services.
If the service a company sells is just a hosted version of their OSS, even if it has a bunch of non-OSS bells and whistles added on, that company is at risk of a cloud provider eating their lunch unless they switch to a non-OSS license.
Note: I work at Earthly, but I'm not wrong about this being a good, free, arm64-native workflow for GitHub Actions.
Docker shouldn't be charging anyone for that inconsistent experience.