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Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by RealStickman_ »

victormy wrote: post #233

Big thanks to MinIO, RustFS, and Garage for their contributions. That said, MinIO closing the door on open source so abruptly definitely spooked the community. But honestly, fair play to them—open source projects eventually need a path to monetization. I’ve evaluated both RustFS and Garage, and here’s the breakdown: Release Cadence: Garage feels a bit slower, while RustFS is shipping updates almost weekly. Licensing:…

Last time I checked (~half a year ago) Garage didn't have a bunch of s3 features like object versioning and locking. Does RustFS have a list of s3 features they support?

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by Blackthorn »

tomnipotent wrote: post #321
elzbardico wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there's still someone actively working on the Linux kernel without receiving a salary, and this for the last two decades more or less.

Other than a few popular libraries, I'm unaware of any major open source project that isn't primarily supported by corporate employees working on it as part of their day job.

What counts as a "major" open source project?

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by dzogchen »

tetha wrote: post #235
ahepp wrote: post #182

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Wait, what's the consensus on this? Are they saying that using object storage over a standard network API which they didn't even create, makes your application a derivative work of the object store? Or just that the users would need to make minio sources, including modifications, freely available? I guess that's kind of the big question inherent to the AGPL?

From my understanding, you would not be allowed to sell an "S3 compatible storage" as a service based off of Minio or another AGPL licensed S3-compatible storage solution, especially if you modify the source code of minio in any way and then serve that to your customers. If you use Minio or another AGPL licensed service internally to support your own product without a customer ever touching it's API, it should be fin…

You can modify the source code, you can commercialize it. You just have to give access to the source code to users that interact with it over a network.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by jen20 »

everfrustrated wrote: post #199
runiq wrote: post #178

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They have a CLA that assigns copyright to them: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs/blob/5b0a3a07645364d998e3f5... So, arguably worse than MinIO.

The _only_ reason to require a CLA is because you expect to change the license in the future. RustFS has rug-pull written all over it.

Obviously this is not the only reason - even the Free Software Foundation require IP assignment via a CLA.

Whether you can or will sign one is a different matter (I will not).

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by cpach »

lmc wrote: post #282
victormy wrote: post #233

Big thanks to MinIO, RustFS, and Garage for their contributions. That said, MinIO closing the door on open source so abruptly definitely spooked the community. But honestly, fair play to them—open source projects eventually need a path to monetization. I’ve evaluated both RustFS and Garage, and here’s the breakdown: Release Cadence: Garage feels a bit slower, while RustFS is shipping updates almost weekly. Licensing:…

Any idea who is behind RustFS?

Good question. On their website they list 3550 Lenox Road, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30326 as their address. But no info about the company name, CEO or anything like that.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by jblecanard »

mikestorrent wrote: post #246
ahepp wrote: post #243

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> open source projects eventually need a path to monetization I guess I'm curious if I'm understanding what you mean here, because it seems like there's a huge number of counterexamples. GNU coreutils. The linux kernel. FreeBSD. NFS and iSCSI drivers for either of those kernels. Cgroups in the Linux kernel. If anything, it seems strange to expect to be able to monetize free-as-in-freedom software. GNU freedom number…

I think, if anything, in this age of AI coding we should see a resurgence in true open-source projects where people are writing code how they feel like writing it and tossing it out into the world. The quality will be a mixed bag! and that's okay. No warranty expressed or implied. As the quality rises and the cost of AI coding drops - and it will, this phase of $500/mo for Cursor is not going to last - I think we'll…

What makes you so sure that AI coding price will drop ? There are many reasons to think otherwise.

People do not generally want to build software to impress at parties, that is a very weird flex, even if you are trolling.

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