Plus one.

Reading through this, I’m not sure what the fear is of Shopify taking a larger role. They’ve been strong contributors to Ruby for a really long time. Not that I agree with the actions, but I can’t parse what nefarious motives they might have from this article.

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Etheryte 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Replace Shopfiy with Microsoft, Oracle or etc and surely you can see what worries people might have around a move like this. Just because a company has a positive imago does not mean that their motives align with that of the community.

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LightBug1 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aren't they a profit motivated company?

I'm not necessarily saying that's a bad thing. But it inevitably means they will not always be aligned.

	▲	hibikir 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Anon profit, or even a random person, has their own motivations too that will not be aligned. Linus was herding cats in the kernel back when few contributors were paid by corporations to do it. Anyone that has spent any time on a large-ish OSS project has seen bad maintainers with poor incentives, as seen from the outside