[FunnyLookinHat]

Our company pays for Docker Desktop licenses, but we've made every other effort to not rely on Docker directly (e.g. DockerHub) to avoid the SPF. Pull-through caches with ECR were a quick way to drastically reduce reliance further.

Given the state of our internal tooling, we can conceivably move to podman or similar within the next year if the license fees become onerous, but, given the size of our org, we likely will just keep forking over license fees as it's cheaper than the salary to remove the dependency.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I feel like it's also good to pay in order to support the company, so long as they continue to provide something of value.

[AeroNotix]

This is terrible financial advice.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

If paying for docker affects your bottom line, you have bigger problems. In the meantime, not paying things creates a tragedy of the commons and distorts the market (by giving an advantage to incumbents who earn money on other things).

[arcturus17]

Some companies are probably not far away from technical collapse if a few of their critical open source libraries and tooling go to shit. Better cough up a little bit now than have to fork in the future and set up a whole new team to maintain that dependency - likely with much worse results than before.

[pwinnski]

It doesn't seem like financial advice, but life advice.