It's Official! The Bullies Are Running The Ruby Community!
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Shopify exercised organizational influence within Ruby Central and pushed a governance change that transferred operational control of Bundler and RubyGems. Key maintainers resigned in protest, citing conflicts of interest and a loss of neutrality in stewardship of core ecosystem tools. The change centralized control under parties aligned with Shopify’s commercial priorities, prompting community distrust and concerns about security, vendor bias, and diminished independent oversight. Community responses called for greater transparency, clearer governance safeguards, and protections to prevent corporate capture of critical open-source infrastructure.
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