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We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

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128 points darthShadow | 4 comments | 24 Jan 25 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.639s | source
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concerndc1tizen ◴[24 Jan 25 12:20 UTC] No.42812414[source]▶
If you don't like it, then why don't you use a different provider?

If you want free stuff, is your strategy to smear them into giving you more free stuff?

Storage, compute, and traffic, isn't free. You've been the beneficiary of charity for years.

Yes, the open source community has relied on this implicit charity as a parasite, by exploiting whatever free services they could. And now we're paying the price, as you say, by having DockerHub as the default provider.

My suggestion is therefore that we need independent solutions, that are fully funded as a charity, and stop relying on freemium services from corporations that fundamentally don't care about the public good.

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1. surgical_fire ◴[24 Jan 25 12:33 UTC] No.42812503[source]▶
> the open source community has relied on this implicit charity as a parasite

Very loaded language you use, when, typically, commercial software relies on Open Source software and community efforts as a parasite.

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2. exe34 ◴[24 Jan 25 12:44 UTC] No.42812573[source]▶
Projection allows one to set the frame of the debate, if you then accuse them of parasitism, it doesn't carry the same weight, as they've already used it against you.
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3. plagiarist ◴[24 Jan 25 13:11 UTC] No.42812716[source]▶
These Docker "parasites" are providing dozens of free containers for Docker's customers and still have the audacity to request an email correspondence about their sponsorship status.
4. surgical_fire ◴[24 Jan 25 14:03 UTC] No.42813111[source]▶
Except I am not projecting anything, and I didn't accuse OP of being a parasite.

I am just describing a factual state of things of how companies relate to Open Source Software.