[femto113]

It's worse than just handwaving, it's straight up nonsensical. Perhaps it is literally true that only 2% of distinct accounts that log into Docker Hub have this plan, but for the vast majority of people "using Docker Hub" means "pulling public images from Docker Hub", not "logging into Docker Hub", so by a more reasonable criteria (say % of images pulled) I'm sure its at least an order of magnitude greater.

[trinsic2]

Yea. I don't think its necessary to even add that part since it seems the only reason they are responding is due to the negative backlash from the open source community. The fact that they added the % appears to me as an attempt to marginalize and compartmentalize the perception of this decision so it doesn't spread into the perception of their paying customers. Good luck with that.