We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

I'm absolutely stunned by all the negative comments in here bashing the Linuxserver project. "Run your own registry", "you get everything for free be grateful", and so on. What the hell is wrong with you?

They are a couple of guys trying to make software more accessible to thousands of people. Indeed it's a large project and one may question if they should get _everything_ for free. But that's not the point of this article. The article is about the absolutely horrendous behaviour of the company running Docker Hub. And I totally relate to this as I applied for a project of mine, too. How they run their open source program, it feels nothing more like presenting themselves as the big open source supporters, but in fact they make it extra hard for those who already maintain software for free.

> the absolutely horrendous behaviour

They've ignored their application. That hardly qualifies as "horrendous".

Don't you believe in freedom?

It's fair to criticize them for monopolistic practices and creating a closed ecosystem. But if you want social goods (enforced through social norms), then the company should be publicly owned, not private.

Dude, your posts are filled with wild non-sequiturs. “Don’t you believe in freedom?” What?

Dude,

I'd argue that the people in these comments are suffering from cognitive dissonance.

I see people presenting two beliefs:

1) enterprises should be free to offer the services they want, to who they want

2) consumers have the right to bully enterprises that don't offer what they want

And that's fine. People can have different politics.

But IIUC, these two beliefs are mutually exclusive.

Dictionary for the illiterate:

- Bully: when you use peer pressure, through public exposure, to induce negative consequences, as a political strategy, for furthering an agenda, and getting the victim to align with your interests.