This is such a strange take. Ruby Central, for better or worse, is the steward of Rubygems/Bundler. If Mike Perham wants to withdraw his funding because he thinks DHH is a white supremacist, then that's fine. But DHH didn't do that, Perham did.
Arko is not a completely innocent, non-self-interested character here. He has announced a project to end-run the existing rubygems, bundler, etc infrastructure before all this, in the name of "better tooling", but his tooling is solely owned by him and a handful of people that really, really don't like DHH. Controlling this aspect of the ruby toolchain ecosystem is in their own self-interest and overlaps with their deep disdain for the politics and corporate nature of the existing stewards of the ruby toolchain ecosystem. Maybe their approach and stewardship of this fork of the toolchain is more just, secure and equitable, but make no mistake -- they are fighting the same war that DHH and Shopify are, which is who controls the keys to the toolchain. Do you think if Arko, Perham, et. al. had control they would somehow be completely neutral, apolitical stewards of the ecosystem? No! They have made it clear with their money and machinations that they do not want to operate in the same ecosystem as DHH and their politics and ethics are intertwined with their relationship to the ruby community. They are no different than him.
Meanwhile those of us who just want stability are stuck between two factions who claim righteousness and ownership. I wish they all could be deposed and some more mature non-individual foundation could take over.
Arko is not a completely innocent, non-self-interested character here. He has announced a project to end-run the existing rubygems, bundler, etc infrastructure before all this, in the name of "better tooling", but his tooling is solely owned by him and a handful of people that really, really don't like DHH. Controlling this aspect of the ruby toolchain ecosystem is in their own self-interest and overlaps with their deep disdain for the politics and corporate nature of the existing stewards of the ruby toolchain ecosystem. Maybe their approach and stewardship of this fork of the toolchain is more just, secure and equitable, but make no mistake -- they are fighting the same war that DHH and Shopify are, which is who controls the keys to the toolchain. Do you think if Arko, Perham, et. al. had control they would somehow be completely neutral, apolitical stewards of the ecosystem? No! They have made it clear with their money and machinations that they do not want to operate in the same ecosystem as DHH and their politics and ethics are intertwined with their relationship to the ruby community. They are no different than him.
Meanwhile those of us who just want stability are stuck between two factions who claim righteousness and ownership. I wish they all could be deposed and some more mature non-individual foundation could take over.