[hitekker]

If you read more closely, the article notes potential malfeasance and cites receipts https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserve...

> Later, in August 2017, Andre accused Google Cloud Platform of wholesale copying gemstash's codebase, going so far as to threaten legal action in his opening message. He juxtaposed the accusation with the complaint that Google had, "repeatedly declined to support Ruby Together." The incident appeared to fit a pattern of behavior to pair high-conflict messaging with an admonition of the target's failure to fund the organization that paid him. Ultimately, Andre's claim turned out to be factually baseless—Google hadn't copied gemstash's code, after all.

The history strongly suggests a pattern behind current events.

[GreenWatermelon]

And he completely apologized when it turned out he was wrong and made a hasty judgement, 5 hours later.

And a single instance of something is hardly a pattern.