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concerndc1tizen ◴[] 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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whois ◴[] No.42812483[source]
Your response feels in bad faith. Docker is the default registery. That gives them n amount of responsibility. Not to mention organizations should be accountable for their bad behavior. Don't give them a pass.
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1. concerndc1tizen ◴[] No.42812527{3}[source]
Your position is one of presumed entitlement, where you rely on services being provided because the outcry of not doing it would be costly.

So you're right in that sense. It's essentially blackmail: free services in exchange for staying silent.

I think it's unhealthy.

And I argue that we need properly funded, independent services, with clear motives.