Podman rocks for me!
I find docker hard to use and full of pitfalls and podman isn't any worse. On the plus side, any company I work for doesn't have to worry about licences. Win win!
Was this a deal breaker for any company?
I ask because the Docker Desktop paid license requirement is quite reasonable. If you have less than 250 employees and make less than $10 million in annual revenue it's free.
If you have a dev team of 10 people and are extremely profitable to where you need licenses you'd end up paying $9 a year per developer for the license. So $90 / year for everyone, but if you have US developers your all-in payroll is probably going to be over $200,000 per developer or roughly $2 million dollars. In that context $90 is practically nothing. A single lunch for the dev team could cost almost double that.
To me that is a bargain, you're getting an officially supported tool that "just works" on all operating systems.
It's only 9 bucks a year, its only 5 bucks a month, its less than a dollar a day.
Docker, ide, ticking system, GitHub, jira, sales force, email, office suit, Figma.... all of a sudden your spending 1000 bucks a month per staff member for a small 10 person office.
Meanwhile AWS is charging you .01xxxx for bandwidth, disk space, cpu time, s3 buckets, databases. All so tiencent based AI clients from China hammer your hardware and run up your bill....
The rent seeking has gotten out of hand.
The majority of businesses in the world, (and the majority of jobs) are created and delivered by small business, not big.
And then the issues when a service goes down it takes everyone else down with it.