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by KingOfCoders 250 days ago
As I understood it, to secure (their words) the supply chain, they took ownership of the code and repo (which others disputed as being owned by them) and kicked out users from Github.

It is said the underlying cause is that devs push rv which is threatening RubyGems.
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mosselman 250 days ago
How is rv threatening rubygems? I am pretty excited about rv on first glance, I tried it and it was too beta when I did to work nicely, but definitely good to have a uv type tool for ruby.
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KingOfCoders 250 days ago
"Yes, I agree. And some of the “admins” even announced publicly many days ago they were launching a competitor tool and were funding raising for it. I’d not trust the system to such “admin”."

https://bsky.app/profile/rmfranca.bsky.social/post/3lz7alpob...

See https://spinel.coop/

"Spinel develops rv, the next-generation Ruby version manager"

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phoronixrly 250 days ago
This doesn't explain how rv is threatening rubygems in any way.
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x3n0ph3n3 249 days ago
They were using the name "rubygems" to fund-raise for not-"rubygems."
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phoronixrly 249 days ago
But how is this a conflict? Both are not-for-profit projects with the same goal? How can one even use the term 'competition' in this context? What if the Ruby community embraces a new and better package manager? This is, again, a net win for the Ruby community, and both projects strive for that?
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x3n0ph3n3 249 days ago
It doesn't really matter if it's a non-profit. How do you think your company would react if you started raising money using their name?
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