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It does not sound like Shopify were adults in the room. Sounds like they were the assholes essentially stealing in the room. Pulling funding is legitimate ste
by watwut 1y ago
It does not sound like Shopify were adults in the room. Sounds like they were the assholes essentially stealing in the room.
Pulling funding is legitimate step on the other hand.
- shadowgovt 1y agoThey saw an opportunity and they took it. Companies don't have morals. Too many people in the room, generally, for such a concept to make sense. They have goals, means, and constraints.
- blibble 1y agoall this will result in is every open source tool migrating to a fork cutting out Slopify, their puppets and their influence forever
- shadowgovt 1y agoPossibly. It's also entirely possible that it results in very little change; I don't know that most users downstream care enough about life at the sausage factory to be deeply concerned of a changing of the guard in their package repo. I could be wrong; Ruby tends to have a particularly passionate and active ecosystem of developers.
- mplewis 1y agoThis will result in continued attrition for Ruby, Rails, and the overall ecosystem, just like everything DHH has done over the last five years.