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MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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672 points LexSiga | 4 comments | 22 Oct 25 06:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Tepix ◴[22 Oct 25 09:12 UTC] No.45666563[source]▶
It's an Open Source project - I don't understand what people are complaining about. Noone is entitled to receive free Docker images. I'm sure if there is enough demand, someone else who is trustworthy will step up and automate building them.

What I'd like to complain about instead is the pricing page on the Min.io webpage - it doesn't list any pricing. Looking at https://cloudian.com/blog/minios-ui-removal-leaves-organizat... it seems the prices are not cheap at all (minimum of $96,000 per year). Note that Cloudian is a competitor offering a closed-source product.

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1. Aeolun ◴[22 Oct 25 10:04 UTC] No.45666929[source]▶
They are entitled to stop building docker images. Their users are entitled to get salty and go find alternative products.

If that is Minio’s expectation, then all is good, but it seems kinda counterproductive? I never liked minio, but I certainly wouldn’t use it after seeing them remove features.

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2. jinkylist ◴[22 Oct 25 10:21 UTC] No.45667029[source]▶
>I certainly wouldn’t use it after seeing them remove features.

All sorts of projects remove features all the time though, even the linux kernel drops support for hardware that may or may not be in use somewhere

>Their users are entitled to get salty and go find alternative products.

People are entitled to feeling things of course, others will only point out that it may not be justified and that the user is liable to get hurt again if they never adjust their expectations to meet reality

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3. sneak ◴[22 Oct 25 13:14 UTC] No.45668611[source]▶
They removed the admin UI from the web frontend in the f/oss version some months ago, too. I updated for security reasons and they'd stripped the functionality out. It's a jerk move.

MinIO is open source cosplay.

I wrote this back in July: https://sneak.berlin/20250720/minio-are-assholes/

4. duskwuff ◴[22 Oct 25 18:28 UTC] No.45673220[source]▶
I think (and I suspect many users would agree) that there is a big difference between "we are removing some unmaintained drivers for a piece of hardware which almost no one is using" and "we are removing a tentpole feature from the 'open-source' version of our application and making it exclusive to the paid edition".