“Last week we felt our communications were terrible but our policy was sound. It’s now clear that both the communications and the policy were wrong, so we’re reversing course and no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan:”
Docker announced the end of its Free Team plan on March 14 and reversed it ten days later. Anyone who upgraded in between gets a refund. In those ten days Docker accepted more open source sponsorship applications than in the whole previous year. The policy only became wrong once it stopped producing paying customers.