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> Many people have also taken note of the fact that Hansson joined the Shopify board of directors last year.

> "Shopify specifically put immense financial pressure on Ruby Central to take full control of the RubyGems GitHub organisation and Ruby gems"

Well that explains everything.



I may be utterly wrong, but this is what I think has happened:

This post triggered the an attempt to cancel DHH: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

DHH races sports cars with Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke. These two plus some pro-Israel and anti-immigration pals pushed out all the cancel culture guys that already tried to cancel DHH in 2022 after his no-politics fiasco at Basecamp.

That's how RubyGems landed in the hands of the only impartial arbiter Matz.




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