[phoronixrly]

Is Rubygems a company? My mind cannot comprehend why are people conflating not-for-profit open-source projects with for-profit companies...

If Rubygems was a company, they'd have a trademark, they'd have patents, they'd have lawyers to protect the money they were making from their brand and product. But we are speaking about not-for-profit open-source projects, not for for-profit corporations!

[dismalaf]

Ruby Central is a company that manages rubygems.org and rubygems. The maintainers who were locked out were being paid by Ruby Central while fundraising for their startup creating a competitor.

Doesn't it seem like a bit of a security risk to you?

[krainboltgreene]

No. (Disclaimer I got paid to work on rubygems and have been doing this for 18 years)

[dismalaf]

How about now?

[krainboltgreene]

Why in the world would my opinion have changed?