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>>bradge+(OP)
This is a great account of "what."

I'm still struggling to understand the "why."

(That's not an implicit criticism of the article, which is extremely appreciated because it's neutral and factual)

I've been away from Ruby for a few years but Shopify always seemed like a huge net positive, sponsoring lots of valuable work on both Ruby and Rails. I never followed Ruby community happenings very closely but I'm not aware of negative feelings towards their community role in the past.

>>JohnBo+PG
It took a fair amount of reading between the lines, but here's what appears to have happened: 1) People and entities with partial control over RubyGems attempted to cancel DHH. 2) In response, elements aligned with DHH kicked the former out of RubyGems. 3) Everyone involved is now attempting to legitimize their motives as "good engineering."

In other words, "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die."

>>rancor+EJ
> 1) People and entities with partial control over RubyGems attempted to cancel DHH

Ok there it is. That would explain why they’re being so cagey. I thought there had to more to this.

>>bn-l+HO1
Nah, DHH has too much power and authority to be "cancelled". One person pulled his donations - a very generous continuous gift - because he didn't want to fund Ruby Central if they continued to platform bigotry.

Ruby Central screwed themselves by relying on basically two large donors for their funding, and then offended one of those two donors.

>>jmcgou+mc2
Many people trying to cancel him is still a "cancel campaign" in my book. Just a failed one. IMO, it's pretty similar to the last cancel campaign against DHH & his associates >>42593223