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Shopify Engages in Hostile Takeover of RubyGems and Bundler

posted by hubie on Wednesday October 01, @09:32AM   Printer-friendly

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by CaptNemo on Wednesday October 01, @05:06PM

    by CaptNemo (40016) on Wednesday October 01, @05:06PM (#1419225)

    So basically: the host mis-behaved, the maintainers got butt hurt, and the code’s still theirs. Big load of nothing.

    THIS is why you don't rely on other people's servers.

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