After their last rug pull when they started charging projects for registry after parading it as a fully free service for almost a decade, it has become hard to trust anything free.

Bait and switch once the adoption happens has become way too common in the industry.

Docker is a company I just can’t hate on. They’ve completely transformed how software is deployed. Containers gained so much momentum it kind of outgrew them and they lost a lot of potential business. I would hardly call beginning to charge after a decade of free service a rug pull, especially now that dependence on Docker’s registry is shrinking all the time.

Given the wealth and productivity creation that they're responsible for enabling across the industry, they deserve to be paid for it. There is no way for them to have achieved this with zero friction.

It's the only rational way for a company to behave. Nonetheless you said it was free for 10 years. Many entire companies started and died within 10 years and had the benefit of the free registry the entire time. If you avoid doing something because it might change 10 years later, you'll never get anything done.

Feels like they're trying to put the cat back in the bag and recoup a fraction of the exodus from the registry thing.

Projects are not charged for hub usage

When was this?