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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
Plus one.

Reading through this, I’m not sure what the fear is of Shopify taking a larger role. They’ve been strong contributors to Ruby for a really long time. Not that I agree with the actions, but I can’t parse what nefarious motives they might have from this article.

>>tyre+rJ
Totally on that one. Recently investments in homebrew almost turned it to be a paid tool.

I can totally see someone seizing the opportunity there. (And if you think it is a good idea, you are a terrible person)

I work for a small company who helps financially for ruby community, and they strongly advocate for other same size companies to do the same so there is balance.

It would be terrible for pypi, rubygems, brew and other repos to be used as political or economical tools.

Large companies can fork and keep living for a while or pay the cost. But for everyone else, including people developing ideas at home, it would be a shot through the heart.

So if you have a company that can help those orgs, press them to do so. If you have 5 USD to help, also do it. It makes the difference.

>>motbus+gm2
> Recently investments in homebrew almost turned it to be a paid tool.

Can you say more about this? I haven't heard about this before.

>>nightp+dK7
I'm sure you can easily find a out its creator saying he cannot make a living from brew despite putting lots of effort in it. Initial plan was to bake some sort of payment in it so companies would need to pay, then it became something people would be for everyone and then, I guess, he finally decided that it would be too much stress to get people to accept the fact so he went to make Tea

For me, this means that brew will eventually phase out.