> How has it been “eating itself alive”?

> There's been a ton of that, yes...

What are you saying - because some people got rich off Ruby, it's OK that those things happened?

Clearly not - Ruby will be lucky to have a shadow of the community left after this.

No, I'm saying there's a lot of people who won't even know this happened. Fewer will know that it happened, but they'll view it as a scenario where the ends justify the means.

I'm on the record saying RC did a poor job rolling out these changes and treated the maintainers poorly.

There will be a lot of amazing Rubyists that leave, which is terrible, but it won't be "the shadow of a community left" because there's way too many people who depend on it to feed their families.

>Ruby will be lucky to have a shadow of the community left after this.

Maybe? This feels like an extreme statement with too much certainty at this point.