Shopify and/or its technical leadership worked its connections to oust a Rubygems maintainer they saw as a threat to Ruby projects Shopify has invested in.

This was especially provocative because it involved Ruby Central asserting control over Rubygems, which it does not own.

It was (by credible accounts) a "preemptive strike" on this maintainer, and thus was not communicated to other RG maintainers, who were understandably angry.

The statement from RC at the time sounded like lot of CYA, and this doesn't read as all that sincere either.

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joeldrapper 3 days ago | parent [-]

That’s what it looks like to me, but I haven’t yet seen a good explanation of their motive. Why would the development of `rv` be such a threat to them?

I know specific individuals hate Andre and have had beef with him for years, but it’s hard to see what might have motivated Shopify and specifically Ufuk Kayserilioglu to carry this out.

	▲	mpalmer 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Why would the development of `rv` be such a threat to them? Well, package managers and language bundlers/runtimes are the hottest new luxury item for big tech - maybe they're worried rv gets bought in the same way that Anthropic bought bun, and OpenAI bought uv (Astral). Though at the time, none of that had happened yet.