Re:MinIO repository is no longer maintained
by praptak on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:05AM
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> I find it unreasonable to "demand" clarity "at the start" because there is no such thing.
Obviously you cannot "demand" stuff but you can do your due dilligence as the person who chooses a technical solution. Some projects have more clarity than others, for example the Linux foundation or CNCF are basically companies sharing costs for stuff they all benefit from like Linux or Prometheus monitoring and it is highly unlikely they'd do a rug pull.
On the other end of the spectrum there are companies with a "free" version of a paid product and the incentive to make the free product crappier so that people pay for the paid version. These should be avoided.
Re:MinIO repository is no longer maintained
by caniszczyk on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:38PM
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It's not only less likely to have rug pulls in open source foundations, it's not really possible. Some foundations like CNCF have stood up when companies even tried this: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/05/01/protecting-nats-and-the-...
When you start something (startup, FOSS project, damn even marriage) you might start with the best intentions and then you can learn/change/loose interest. I find it unreasonable to "demand" clarity "at the start" because there is no such thing.
Turning it around, any company that adopts a FOSS project should be honest and pay for something if it does not accept the idea that at some point the project will change course (which obviously, does not guarantee much, because even if you pay for something they can decide to shut it down).