[whalesalad]

I don't think the people in this thread have any concept of how much $$$ it costs to distribute a free container that is going to be downloaded billions of times.

You are a farmer, not a big fancy profitable one. Your tractor is from 1970 and works great, when it works. Your wife has health problems and can't really help out around the farm much - kids have gone off - so you just do things mostly by yourself. With your lucky dog Skip by your side. Even though times are tough and money ain't coming in like it used to - you still give free produce to the local schools and shelters. You've been doing it for over 20 years, and the community loves you for it.

But then your wife passes. Medical bills are too high. You can't give away free produce to the local schools anymore.

The community is outraged. They come to your farm with pitchforks. They set your barn and fields on fire.

This is kinda what this thread feels like lol.

[Sparkle-san]

> I don't think the people in this thread have any concept of how much $$$ it costs to distribute a free container that is going to be downloaded billions of times.

Not very much at all. It looks like they're hosting on Docker Hub which doesn't charge for bandwidth. I could create a pro account for $11/month and be able to serve an image billions of times. The compute to build an image is small enough that it can be done at whim on a dev machine.

[lemagedurage]

But when you plug in the numbers: that the farmer raised $126 million, and hosting unlimited Docker Hub pulls costs $11/month, it doesn't quite feel the same.

[canto]

It's absolutely not what is happening.

It's more like the farmer was giving leftovers for free to schools and it was so good that it made him famous. People from all over the country came in, including businessmen who told the farmer he is missing out and should be charging more for his food. He started a restaurant chain but, the businessmen went further and said that a quality product cannot be given away for free and made him stop supporting schools and shelters which got him rich and famous in the first place. Even tho, he was just handing over leftovers (it cost around USD 100 to host a docker image - yearly)

Think EA, Microsoft and Xbox, Broadcom and bitnami.