[ChoHag]

> But if you take my cookies, add sprinkles then resell them, I can expect a modest donation to keep the bakery running.

You cannot expect any such thing. You gave them away for free.

If you want to get paid, don't give your work away for free. If you give your work away for free, you cannot expect to get paid.

It's shocking how frequently people who deal in rigorous logic day in, day out are unable to understand this very simple principle.

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Okay, then no one gets cookies. Mega corps expect bugs to be fixed and CDNs to work.

Rate limiting access is completely reasonable. It's a sad state of affairs, because eventually we're going to end up with an internet full of Docker Desktop gacha licenses.

You can only use this if you're not at work. If your using it as a corporation you need to expense a license, then finance says ohh wow, Docker Desktop is too expensive.

Use something significantly worse.

Every large FOSS project needs to figure out it's funding at some point.

I don't want a future where I can only reliably use projects controlled by multi-billion or trillion dollar corporations. .net core is fantastic, but it's ultimately a Microsoft project in everything but name.