Docker, rant
To put it bluntly, y'all got suckered, *again*, particularly the "Docker Captains" who did volunteer marketing work for a for-profit corporation.
How often does it need to be repeated? Corporations are not your friend, corporations are not communities, and doing free work for them means you're getting exploited.
"Free" shit from corporations is never truly free. It only exists for as long as necessary to have you do free marketing and grow their company for them. A corporation will 100% leave you for dead once that's been accomplished and they no longer need you.
When will people finally learn from this, and the thousands of similar failures before it, and stop defending corporations or buying into their "free for open-source" marketing?
I would be a lot less salty about this if I didn't get an absurd amount of backlash from weirdly defensive nerds every time I tried to warn people against predatory marketing schemes. Y'all are *part of the problem*.
re: Docker, rant
I particularly "love" how people write angrily about Docker's changes and then... suggest moving to *another* free service from a for-profit corporation
I can see no problem with this whatsoever
re: Docker, rant
@joepie91 what has Docker done now?
re: Docker, rant
@freemanovec They're deleting essentially all free organizations (and their images) from the registry in a month or so, unless they pay up
re: Docker, rant
@freemanovec @joepie91 Quay is RedHat aka IBM operating on basically the same model, so you can copy paste the above thread in a few years with 's/docker/quay/g'
re: Docker, rant
@rune @pixie.town fair enough, but what are some viable alternatives for a public registry that you don't have to host yourself? GCR? :D
re: Docker, rant
@freemanovec All the registries are probably fine if you pay for them. It's not like Docker is deleting stuff for paying customers.
If you don't want to pay for them you'll have to host them yourself or live with going through this every few years when the VC funds run out.
re: Docker, rant
@joepie91 @freemanovec only the private images, not? I understood that public images on the hub are fine.
re: Docker, rant
@arjen @freemanovec My understanding from what I've read so far, is that all images are affected. But the exact details have changed at least once already, so who knows really
re: Docker, rant
@joepie91 geez.. That should accelerate my switch to quay xD Hecking Docker