🚨 MinIO goes into maintenance mode

MinIO has just announced that the open source project is now in maintenance-only mode: no new features, no regular PR review, only best-effort community support.
If your data lake, AI workloads or internal S3-compatible storage rely on MinIO, this is no longer a theoretical risk – it’s an operational one. Over the next months you’ll likely have to choose between:
– Freezing your stack on an aging fork
– Paying for the vendor’s proprietary alternative
– Or planning a controlled migration to another object store (Ceph, cloud S3, …)

🔙 6 months ago I warned about this exact scenario in a post on AGPL and “open-core bait & switch” risks.
👉 https://lnkd.in/emvdxYYd
🔗 The Hacker News discussion for more context:
👉 https://lnkd.in/eXArW4Yx

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