[mikl]

They can just fork Rails right now, no need for dramatic open letters.

As for trying to unseat the Rails founder and BDFL, no chance.

[archagon]

Forking is a political action that requires buy-in. Hence the letter.

[ilikehurdles]

Is that how they’re coping on bluesky?

For a political action, the blowback has been several thousand-fold larger than the support. So far I’ve seen the tailwind creator, shopify ceo, reactjs creator, creator of ladybird browser, writer of pragmatic engineer, many prominent people in the rails community, and so many others speak out against this fork.

The letter (more like a resume blacklist) has shown that the Overton window has shifted enough to where people can comfortably and publicly call out obviously dumb nonsense.

[dismalaf]

It's not though. Go to GitHub, press the fork button. Then give people a reason to use your fork over others.