MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

Looking at the change to the README last week[1], it looks like MinIO went from "MinIO has no planned or scheduled releases for this repository" and " While a new release may be cut at any time, there is no timeline for when a subsequent release may occur." to "The MinIO community edition is now distributed as source code only".

Based on promises alone, I think that means they un-dropped the open source project but still only distribute the binaries to their customers.

[1]: https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/9e49d5e7a648f00e26f224...

Is there a fork already?

Keep in mind this is the same project that removed all useful functionality from the included web UI in the community edition with the excuse that it was too much effort to maintain.

This is another case of VC-funded companies pulling up the ladder behind themselves.

Do we need a fork? As an example, ffmpeg is source only for mac and windows, which just means someone else is building and distributing binaries.