[BCM43]

Since they've buried it a little:

"Specifically, small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in revenue) may continue to use Docker Desktop with Docker Personal for free. The use of Docker Desktop in large businesses, however, requires a Pro, Team, or Business paid subscription, starting at $5 per user per month."

[judge2020]

Anyone know how they plan to enforce this? Audits into the IP space connecting to hub.docker.com? Maybe arbitrary device OS detection a la

  (nmap -O $local_subnet | grep -ci 'Macbook') > 250

[qeternity]

They won’t need to. The number of 250+ engineer businesses that would risk running unlicensed software is small.

[academia_hack]

I don't think it's 250 seats, but 250 employees. Lots of fairly low tech businesses (such as restaurant or retail chain or universities) may have less than a dozen docker users but still cross that total threshold.

[qeternity]

Well, that makes it even cheaper.

[merb]

well it is AND: "AND less than $10 million in revenue"

basically most companies with ~50 people probably has 10 million in revenue (annually). considering wages and buildings and stuff you need for 50 people...

[cutemonster]

(In the US, not in developing countries)

[akdor1154]

Businesses that would knowingly risk this? Small.

Businesses that would unknowingly risk this because some engineer just went and installed Docker Desktop because they couldn't be bothered chasing this through management and procurement? Well..

[hbn]

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I saw an ad recently for a company that offers money to snitch on your employer for using unlicensed software, or not paying for free-for-personal-use" software

[dang]

This comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28368997, so it's quoting the corporate press release, not the current article. We've since merged the threads.