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*.

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

FOSS projects learn to organize non-commercial communal infrastructure challenge 2023 (impossible)

Ah yes, and of course there's already a couple Tech Dudes who now believe that this problem should be solved with a decentralized network (seemingly without understanding that availability is a thing)

Anything to avoid solving problems on a social level, I guess