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I hope you do realize that most of your knowledge on how (y)our world works is, for a big part, based on implicit expectations that you or others infer from past observations.

> ...It's you who has built the expectation, not MiniIO, for it exists only in your mind.

The MinIO team understands very well that they have made everybody "build this expectation [each] in [our] mind[s]". They wouldn't have felt the need to write any announcement that they would stop distributing the binaries otherwise.

> for free forever

This is an exaggeration that grossly misrepresents what I'm saying, and without which your point becomes very weak.

You have two choices here:

(a) acknowledging how your fellow human beings build expectations and, harmed with this critical insight, leave in peace, or

(b) sticking your head in the sand.

I highly recommend the former, especially if you don't want to look like a Vogon.

I'll go further: if someone has been releasing a binary for each version of their software, without specific announcement, it would be unreasonable not to expect a binary for the next version. There's absolutely no reason to think things will be different and the binary won't be there.





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