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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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1. thespad ◴[] No.42812595[source]
We do use other providers, but as stated Docker Hub is the defacto standard so it would be counterproductive for us to abandon it entirely.

We don't "want free stuff", we pay for docker hub for several accounts, but they offer and promote an Open Source program that we have been part of, that simply does not function properly, and that is our complaint.

Your attitude of "well it's free so it's fine if it's shit, just go somewhere else" is wildly unhelpful to everyone.

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2. concerndc1tizen ◴[] No.42812674[source]
I don't agree that you can speak on behalf of "everyone".