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Re:MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only by Kevinmetaba on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:26AM (#45670583)
Is open source and making money in conflict? If they do a good job, I am willing to pay.
Re:MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only by throwway120385 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:32AM (#45670672)
Not necessarily, but if there's a cost to providing free support to the community like official container images, then it will get cut. People comment that it's "free" to provide these things through Github, but it actually has a cost to the maintainers in time, and it's frankly an easy business decision to stop doing that at times in favor of roadmap work that produces business value.

What I'm learning from this is to provide basically zero support from the outset and let it grow organically if I ever build a business on an open source product. As soon as you stop supporting anything for free someone feels entitled to it.

Re:MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only by tankenmate on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:15PM (#45671379)
"but if there's a cost to providing free support to the community like official container images, then it will get cut.", but here's the kicker, supporting creating docker images when you're on github is close to negligible as to be paper thin.