After listening to community feedback, we feel as if an update is warranted on a number of fronts including Weka. We wanted to take the opportunity to clarify some language we used - specifically around revocation.
At the outset we want to make clear:
Any company is free to use MinIO’s licensed code for commercial purposes, even for competitive
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At MinIO, we are dedicated to the principles of open source software. From the beginning, we’ve remained committed to this philosophy and that’s why you will find that the upstream and the commercial code are exactly the same. We are obligated to protect our software - particularly from companies that package it in their proprietary products and pass
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When we started in late 2014, our stated goal was to be AWS S3, but for the rest
of the world. Since then we have been working with a single focus to achieve
that goal. Today marks a major milestone towards that goal, from zero lines of
code in 2014 to a billion docker downloads with deployments across the globe.
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On July 19th, MinIO revoked Nutanix’s Apache v2 license to MinIO’s object
storage suite due to violations of that license. This is an update to that post
[https://blog.min.io/nutanix-objects-violates-minios-open-source-license/].
Nutanix admitted [https://www.nutanix.com/blog/open-source-statement] they
violated MinIO’s Apache 2 license. The open source movement depends on the
protection of intellectual property
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MinIO is the creator of MinIO Object Storage, an open source object storage
platform. We strongly believe in keeping our software open source - the best
quality software is made with community collaboration, so people are free to
innovate and improve. Open source licenses are essential to ensuring people know
where their software comes from, and can keep it secure
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As we share the news of our Series B and the milestone valuation that
accompanied it, I wanted to share some thoughts on our journey, our commercial
traction, what happens next, and why culture matters now more than ever (and how
you can be a part of it).
Our Journey
We have come a long way since we incorporated the
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Today marks a special anniversary for MinIO. It has been five years since we had
our first GA release on GitHub
[https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/tag/RELEASE.2016-03-11T03-45-50Z]. The
journey to that point and from that point (5,396 commits later) has been nothing
short of amazing and we wanted to take a quick moment to recap our
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Gartner just released their Magic Quadrant for Object Storage and Distributed
File Systems, and they have an elite list of companies on their “Vendors to
Watch” list. MinIO is on this highly selective list for the second year and we
are delighted that Gartner continues to recognize our leadership in the space.
MinIO is pioneering the concept of high-performance object
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