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by ec109685 1273 days ago
A key reason docker became as popular as it is and thus contributions from the open source community was that the clients were free.

This switch is just going to move developers who only need basic docker features to free software.

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Which will be later abandoned, because developers got to eat.

No wonder public domain and shareware are back as free core, and SaaS everywhere.

There are major vendors supporting the free alternatives.

Also, totally fine for commercial vendors to what they feel is best, but would be better if they were upfront with it at the beginning versus changing things after taking thousands of contributions,

WSL seems to be doing fine.