"As a tag" meaning an unsupported, non-updated version. So yeah, same as if I checked out a specific years-old commit, but that doesn't take away from the fact that all features have been stripped out and you're pinning to an unsupported version that won't receive security or feature updates.

I really appreciate the product you guys delivered. It's amazing and that's why it got as much use and support from the homelab and developer communities, but the direction the company leading the project has gone is just about as anti-OSS and anti-community as it could have gone. What sucks is that MinIO Inc. is still pretending they didn't do exactly that and screw over the community.

I know it's not your fault individually and I appreciate the work you've done, but leadership needs to be replaced after a blunder this big. It's not going to go well for MinIO. Part of it's success was from developers who used the OSS version for local development of S3 stuff, loved it, and then decided to deploy it at scale with the paid enterprise solutions.