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Tepix ◴[] 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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braza ◴[] No.45669554[source]
> I don't understand what people are complaining about. Noone is entitled to receive free Docker images.

Every time I read something like this, I recall this post from Rich Hickey[1][2] on why no one is entitled to benefit from another human being's goodwill and time.

From the post:

> The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to work are people who run projects, and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects.

> Just because someone open sources something does not imply they owe the world a change in their status, focus and effort, e.g. from inventor to community manager.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95....

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18538123

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1. lemagedurage ◴[] No.45671711[source]
But not everything can be "fair game" when providing a service for free. Surely it wouldn't have been OK if they suddenly included a bitcoin miner or extracted credentials. They offered a free service, people trusted it, depended on it. Now, in my view, they have some responsibilty to their users.

Giving a notice in advance and releasing a final image that patched the CVE would've been reasonably responsible.