Some thoughts / scenarios:

"Fine we will just pay" - I have a personal account then 4 orgs, that's ~ 500 USD / year to keep older OSS online for users of openfaas/inlets/etc.

"We'll just ping the image very 6 mos" - you have to iterate and discover every image and tag in the accounts then pull them, retry if it fails. Oh and bandwidth isn't free.

"Doesn't affect me" - doesn't it? If you run a Kubernetes cluster, you'll do 100 pulls in no time from free / OSS components. The Hub will rate-limit you at 100 per 6 hours (resets every 24?). That means you need to add an image pull secret and a paid unmanned user to every Kubernetes cluster you run to prevent an outage.

"You should rebuild images every 6 mo anyway!" - have you ever worked with an enterprise company? They do not upgrade like we do.

"It's fair, about time they charged" - I agree with this, the costs must have been insane, but why is there no provision for OSS projects? We'll see images disappear because people can't afford to pay or to justify the costs.

A thread with community responses - https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1293937111956099073?s...