I honestly think this is a feature and not a bug. The FAQ shows an attention to detail for the trade-offs of various pricing models[0]. It's clear that Danny cares about monetizing the project in a thoughtful way.

I moved away from Docker Desktop to colima for a couple years and would not pay for Docker Desktop, but after a few weeks of swapping back to OrbStack now that it's public beta, I can definitely see myself paying. OrbStack just works and gets out of the way.

[0]: https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free

This is a couple months old, but is a reasonably concrete proposal: https://twitter.com/OrbStack/status/1656326409995055104

(dev here) Yes, this is still the proposal that I'm planning to move forward with. It's always possible that it doesn't work out and will need to be changed, but I think it's a pretty solid start.

Just updated the docs with this info: https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free

Nice one, thanks for that.

That jumped right out at me too