The thing that strikes me about this thread is how many people are scrambling to evaluate alternatives they've never tested in production. That's the real risk with infrastructure dependencies — it's not that they might go closed-source, it's that the switching cost is so high that you don't maintain a credible plan B.

With application dependencies you can swap a library in a day. With object storage that's holding your data, you're looking at a migration measured in weeks or months. The S3 API compatibility helps, but anyone who's actually migrated between S3-compatible stores knows there are subtle behavioral differences that only surface under load.

I wonder how many MinIO deployments had a documented migration runbook before today.