Exactly like what happened with redis and valkey. Valkey was forked pre-license change and has matured to the amazing state it’s now.

devops engineer origin story 2025 edition:

“I mass-migrated our entire storage infrastructure to RustFS in a weekend because MinIO deleted their Docker images and I took that personally”

RustFS positioning itself as “MinIO but with the license MinIO used to have” is such a power move
Apache 2.0 ✓
S3 compatible ✓
2.3x faster ✓
Not hostile to users ✓
Sometimes the best marketing is just… not being the other guy

“We’re putting the Community Edition in maintenance mode”
Translation: “We’ve extracted all the value we can from the community and would now like them to pay $96,000/year or leave”
The audacity is almost impressive tbh

The most predictable tech story of 2025:
1. Open-source project gets popular
2. Company gets greedy
3. Features get paywalled
4. Community gets mad
5. Someone rewrites it in Rust
6. Original project realizes mistake (too late)

MinIO is on step 5. RustFS has 12.7k stars. 🦀

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