[CaptainOfCoit]

So what? NPM wasn't originally owned by Microsoft, nor GitHub, but reality moves forward?

As long as Matz is involved, I have a lot of faith things will get better, not worse, unless you have some strong indication of otherwise. If anything, because things will be nicer.

[bhouston]

> So what? NPM wasn't originally owned by Microsoft, nor GitHub, but reality moves forward?

NPM was a company and it was acquired and it was voluntary. I don't think you can compare it to this situation - this is more of a messy situation with everything open source collaborations, rather than having clear ownership in a single entity:

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/npm-is-joinin...

Or are you referring to the pre-2014 situation where NPM wasn't VC Funded, but in a more nebulous state? It didn't last that long.

[joeldrapper]

So it’s okay for Matz to get HSBT to steal people’s open source projects? What if Matz sponsors stole Ruby from him? WTF?

[rich_kilmer]

I was one of the originating authors of RubyGems along with Jim (RIP), Chad, David and Paul. I hosted RubyGems from my home for the entire community for many years. We never asked nor received anything for that. We wrote RubyGems for the Ruby community. Matz and the Ruby Core team is the right place for RubyGems. This is great news.

[sebiw]

Thanks for sharing. RIP Jim, I miss him being part of the community.

[the_mitsuhiko]

> So it’s okay for Matz to get HSBT to steal people’s open source projects?

Where is the theft? The projects were open source, they are still open source.

[bmacho]

The software is open source, not the project.

The name is not for the taking. You can download the code, modify and release it, but you can't just claim ownership over a product.

[the_mitsuhiko]

That is a question of trademark law and a much more complex topic. Many people contributed over the years.

[baggy_trough]

Andre Arko was not the original author, so how did he get the name? Did he take it from someone?

[bmacho]

I don't know, and I don't care. I wonder if you try to imply something ridiculously strong, general, and obviously false here?

[mijoharas]

Have we got any sources for Matz getting HSBT to steal it? I mean, I get that they're both members of ruby core, but that's a bit of a claim.