MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

It's absolutely stunning that people actually defend this behaviour!

The community is having an outrage - and rightfully so - about a silently discontinued artifact delivery at a very critical time. Which is their opinion and every human being is entitled to have their own opinion and state it openly.

It is also perfectly fine to expect a standardised behaviour to continue.

However, what is most important is that is perfectly fine to shame an open source product for pulling features and money grabbing people after years of gathering community and locking them in.

I don't think the people in this thread have any concept of how much $$$ it costs to distribute a free container that is going to be downloaded billions of times.

You are a farmer, not a big fancy profitable one. Your tractor is from 1970 and works great, when it works. Your wife has health problems and can't really help out around the farm much - kids have gone off - so you just do things mostly by yourself. With your lucky dog Skip by your side. Even though times are tough and money ain't coming in like it used to - you still give free produce to the local schools and shelters. You've been doing it for over 20 years, and the community loves you for it.

But then your wife passes. Medical bills are too high. You can't give away free produce to the local schools anymore.

The community is outraged. They come to your farm with pitchforks. They set your barn and fields on fire.

This is kinda what this thread feels like lol.