[phphphphp]

The 2% they’re referring to are businesses that are using Docker’s hosted services for free. The majority of the outrage was from people thinking about the non-business users, that is, open source projects, which Docker unintentionally implied would be impacted by this change. Docker are apologising for their poor communication which made people think this change applied to more than just a tiny portion of the user base (who are probably happy to pay). They’re not apologising for the change.

[lozenge]

Anybody who uses "docker pull" or "FROM" and not pointing at their own hosting or their own paid Docker account was affected as evidenced by the thousands of comments worried about the impact.

[madeofpalk]

Well, they say they were never actually affected

> We’d also like to clarify that public images will only be removed from Docker Hub if their maintainer decides to delete them.

> Will open source images I rely on get deleted?

> Not by Docker. Public images will only disappear if the maintainer of the image decides to proactively delete it from Docker Hub. If the maintainer takes no action, we will continue to distribute their public images.

People may have thought they were affected, which is what they seem to be apoligising for.

[SomeCallMeTim]

No. This was NEVER implied at all.

This only ever applied to the *Team* accounts. I have a paid non-team/personal account, but I am also aware that I could have a free personal account if I didn't need private repositories.

In other words, they weren't clear enough in their communication, which is what they're apologizing for.

But the internet outrage mob is going to yell about the evil of The Man no matter what I say, so I don't know why I bother...

[fabian2k]

> Less than 2% of Docker users have a Free Team organization on their account.

I don't think so. The quote above is what they say on that page, and I think that is a pretty useless metric. It affects 2% of all Docker Hub users, 100% of all Free Team users.