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MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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672 points LexSiga | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 06:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.259s | 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. DannyBee ◴[22 Oct 25 10:44 UTC] No.45667203[source]▶
"It's an Open Source project - I don't understand what people are complaining about. Noone is entitled to receive free Docker images. "

While this is true, in all of these discussions, somewhere the notion of responsibility often gets lost.

If you publish a project, encourage people to use it, promote it heavily, etc, then get lots of users, and then decide to kill it, while it's true you legally owe nobody anything, it's sort of crazy to claim people are acting entitled when they complain.

After all, you encouraged people to use it and promoted it!

Again, do you legally owe them anything? Nope.

I am much more empathetic towards those who get surprised by the growth of their projects, or otherwise didn't try to make their project popular and decide to quit when it becomes too large too quickly and becomes a burden.

In general, if you try to encourage lots of people to use or do something and succeed at that, you end up with various forms of social responsibility to those people. That's true in most things, not just open source.

Open source does not get a pass at this social reality simply because, as a legal reality, those users are not owed anything.