It's free for now, just like registries were "free" and docker desktop was free.. until they weren't. I am not against Docker capitalizing and charging for their services (as they should); however, the pattern of offering a service for free and then reneging after it's widely adopted, makes me hesitant to adopt any of their offerings.

Let's hope cases like this will make companies think twice before doing a switcheroo the next time: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/open-lawsuit...

more annoying is that they prevented the software from being configured to configure the registry to not be theirs.

To the point that redhat created podman that can do what you want.