Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by zamalek 1889 days ago
> forking minio and then going closed source with their modifications?

Which is somewhat bizarre given that aims to MinIO emulate a closed-source system. Open source businesses usually use AGPL or similar to prevent "Big Cloud" from stealing their business, this is a very strange inverted approach and I can't figure out why.
1 comments
the_duke 1889 days ago
There are many companies that might use and modify a S3 compatible object storage.

The world does not run exclusively on AWS, Azure and GC.

link
zamalek 1889 days ago
Correct, but that misses the point I was making entirely. Running S3/Elastic/API-X wherever you'd like is a separate issue to the kind of problem that Elastic faced with AWS. AWS soaked up a huge amount of Elastic's potential market, because they are so big and entrenched. Only AWS, Azure, and GCP are big enough to do that - and I don't see anyone "stealing" a reasonable degree of S3 customers from AWS by using Minio (let alone any business model that Minio might be exploring).
link