Graveyard Platform ↘️ Runtime / Cloud Native Storage

MinIO

License: AGPL-3.0

Rawkode's Take

Personal opinion, not gospel

MinIO systematically destroyed community trust through silent license changes, aggressive legal theatrics, gutted features behind a $96K paywall, and locking GitHub threads when people pushed back.

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A billion Docker downloads and years of community goodwill, all gone. MinIO's community edition entering maintenance mode isn't a tragedy—it's the inevitable conclusion of treating your community as a liability rather than an asset.

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MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage system. Originally designed for cloud-native workloads, it became popular for self-hosted object storage due to its simplicity and S3 API compatibility.

History of Controversy

MinIO’s relationship with its community has been troubled:

2019: Silent switch from Apache 2.0 to AGPL license
Legal Actions: Aggressive pursuit of companies using MinIO, including the Weka fiasco
Feature Stripping: Key features moved behind a $96K/year enterprise paywall
Community Hostility: Locking GitHub issues when users pushed back on changes
Docker Abandonment: Left Docker images unpatched during critical CVEs

Technical Features

S3-compatible API
Erasure coding for data protection
Bucket versioning
Object locking for compliance
Server-side encryption
Multi-site replication (enterprise only)

Alternatives

If you’re evaluating object storage solutions, consider:

SeaweedFS - Apache 2.0 licensed, community-friendly
Ceph - Full-featured distributed storage
Garage - Lightweight, geo-distributed storage