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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover (joel.drapper.me)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

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[-] NGram@piefed.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

That's a very scummy move orchestrated by (at least) Shopify, but it doesn't surprise me too much. Did you know that Shopify's leadership are Trump/fascism sympathizers?

[-] superfes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Well, that's screwed up

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

It sounds very similar to how copy left dev was screwed over and broke a good chunk of the internet.

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