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Political Statement Takes Down Chef

posted by martyb on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-kitchen-is-closed dept.

mechanicjay writes:

A developer of some Ruby Gems pulled the code as a statement against certain entities (Department of Homeland Security — DHS) ultimately using the code. Chef gets owned in the process.

ZDNet has a good rundown of the incident:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-library-after-he-finds-out-ice-was-using-it/

It seems that developers at chef may have used an old copy of the dev's code to get things back up and running again, which seems like exactly the wrong approach.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:48AM (#897318)

    The ideology is so extreme that the *United States* is considered "evil." No doubt they would prefer Iran or North Korea.

    Were you to observe it from the outside, you would realise that the United States *is* evil. Comparing it to other examples of evil doesn't make it good, it just illustrates its evilness in relation to others of its sort. "The lesser of two evils" is still evil.

    Try it this way: would you rather a punch in the face or a kick in the balls? Does your selection mean that that option is good?

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