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.

> 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.