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jacques_chester | 5 months ago

At Shopify I was the person who first proposed that we needed to stump up $$$ for RubyGems (and only by implication Ruby Central).

This is not what I had in mind and now I'm embarrassed that I helped make it possible.

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choilive|5 months ago

Sounds like Shopify has some leverage then to open a line of comms with Ruby Central. "Explain yourselves or we will pull funding"

prh8|5 months ago

The problem is that Shopify is leveraged by DHH (who is on their board) to be the financial support referenced elsewhere in today’s discourse. Shopify is a bad actor here

konnorrogers|5 months ago

If that's the case, sounds contradictory to their status as a 501c3 and could get their tax exempt status pulled if it's true.

jacques_chester|5 months ago

I should add, to clarify: I don't work at Shopify anymore and I'm not speaking for them. Purely a personal view.