Shopify Engages in Hostile Takeover of RubyGems and Bundler
wirelessduck writes:
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent. News of the takeover was first broken by Ellen on 19 September.
I have spoken to about a dozen people directly involved in the events, and seen a recording of a key meeting between Ruby Gems maintainers and Ruby Central, to uncover what went on.
https://narrativ.es/@janl/115258495596221725
Okay so this was a hostile takeover. The Ruby community needs to get their house in order.
And one more note, I assume it is implied in the write up, but you might now know: DHH is on the board of directors of Shopify. He exerts tremendous organisational and financial power.
It's hilarious he's threatened by three devs with a hobby project and is willing to burn his community's reputation over it.
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