[Lazare]

I understand you are in a difficult position, but this is a bit absurd.

> During that period you will maintain access to any of your public images.

The only reason that sentence would be in there is if after that period you would lose access to the public images! And from Merriam-Webster, "access", verb, definition two: "to open or load (a computer file, an Internet site, etc.) a file that can be accessed by many users at the same time".

> it wasn't clear what we were going to do about the images.

No, it was quite clear; after the 30 day period we would not be able to pull the images. That's what the announcement said. It was not ambiguous. That may not have been the policy or what was intended to be announced, but the issue here isn't a lack of clarity.

(Also, letting the images stay accessible but disallowing any changes is only marginally better than just removing them, so the current policy - whether or not it's the same as the originally announced policy - is still terrible.)

[derefr]

I’m guessing they mean “write access.”

[Lazare]

Write access is a subset of all access, so I don't think we can really argue that the plain meaning of the original statement was about removing write access.

But yes, a missing word is certainly a plausible explanation for how they issued a statement that meant the opposite of what they apparently intended.

[tremon]

But the original statement did not say all access, it merely said access:

> During that period you will maintain access to any of your public images

Assuming that the you in that sentence is the organization and not the general public (given the use of your organization earlier in the paragraph), the logical interpretation is that they meant write access here, and not all access -- since read access is not limited in any way to the you in that sentence.

Yes, I agree the original messaging was terrible. But claiming that the original can only have meant all access is not consistent with the wording of the announcement.