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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover (joel.drapper.me)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 days 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 days ago (1 children)

Well, that's screwed up

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

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