> I thought they were pivoting towards close it and trying to monetize this?

That's literally what the commit shows that they're doing?

> *This project is currently under maintenance and is not accepting new changes.*

> For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO SloppyAISlop (not actual name)

Their marketing had shifting to trying to push an AI angle for some time now. For an established project or company, that's usually a sign that things aren't going well.

They cite a proprietary alternative they offer for enterprises. So yes they pivoted to a monetized offering and are just dropping the open source one.

So they’re pulling an OpenAI.

Start open source to use free advertising and community programmer, and then dumps it all for commercial licensing.

I think n8n is next because they finished the release candidate for version 2.0, but there are no changelogs.