[throwaway48423]

For a system that is a providing an object storage service how else are you going to use it? We had started using it when it was Apache2 and then we got stuck. Might as well just make it into a paid product/service and not play the open source card and earn creds from community.

[ajayyy]

If you are naking open source software, you can use minio for free, otherwise you have to pay them money. If it was proprietary, that would not be the case

You also are free to study and learn from the code