Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems

What a pathetically insensitive response to a wanton betrayal of trust to members of the community. But then again, that’s how most corpos run. Once something is steady and running, they’ll jump in and seize it, cut off all opposition, then run and hide behind legal jargon and fiduciary duties.

Thanks for sharing the response @AstonJ. The Ruby community is prone to these kinds of fights. Sometime back RubyTogether and DHH got into it. It’s baffling.

To any future language designer, make sure you create and own the package repository for any libraries created using your language. We’ve seen enough of these fights and we are tired.

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