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The way to understand the importance of cancelling Disney+ is that it is an opportunity not just to exert power, but to pop the Twitter bubble execs have lived in for the past half decade, and show them their insular information environment has put their bottom line at risk.

As I said in the follow up the other issue is that the blog post describes the organization’s actions as part of the org’s fiduciary duties. But Thomas is right: the organization doesn’t have fiduciary duties. Its board members have fiduciary duties to protect the organization itself.

The legalese argument doesn’t hold up because *Ruby Central* does not have fiduciary duties. Its board members have fiduciary duties to Ruby Central itself.

My guess is this was written by a lawyer to convey the idea that Ruby Central is entrusted with the ecosystem without thinking through the financial sense of “fiduciary” that most people will read it and understand.

They definitely do have fiduciary duties in the legal sense, as you say. However I think Thomas’s point is basically correct: what they said is that they have “a fiduciary duty to safeguard the supply chain and protect the long-term stability of the ecosystem” which is not really true.

It’s also conspicuous to me how burned out he is. He said outright in the Rails World keynote that he couldn’t be bothered to extract a library from Campfire and made it free so someone else would do it. He’s completely stopped talking about development. It’s 24/7 bigotry and tinkering with Linux.

My pet theory for years now has been that DHH is saying all this cynically because his rich friends are thinking this way and because Republicans were more receptive to his “anti-Big Tech” crusade during the Hey email-Apple war. (Which tbc is awful and if anything I think makes it worse.)

Rails Needs New Governance Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Again, I don’t mean it personally. People make their own decisions about who they will or will not work for and why. Lord knows I’ve done it myself. But I can’t take your word for it in this circumstance.

I don’t mean this as a rude question, but does anybody on the Ruby Central board who does not work for Shopify or 37signals think this is fine? That’s who I want to hear from. I’m not attacking you personally, but working for Tobi and DHH simply renders you not credible on this question.

You would think if any web community would be capable of ridding itself of the Nazi cancer it would be Ruby (and Rails). But nope!

Mastodon screenshot Mike Perham @getajobmike@ruby.social 3m The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to their continued relationship with DHH. Since most of the team has walked away, RC has decided to accept a sponsorship guarantee from DHH so they can hire a new team and this is the PR spin of that decision. I don't see how Ruby Central can be trusted anymore until its Board is publicly elected.

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We need a Ruby Central which is not beholden to DHH and Shopify money but representative of the larger community. Why aren't the board of directors publicly elected, like Python?
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It’s true, when you pick a gaggle of utter crackpots purely for their obsequious servility, they will probably be “ideologically diverse.”

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WRB—July 12, 2023 You’ll have to find some other river to jump in

Pleased to see the Washington Review of Books turning the seriousness up a bit. I generally refuse to shill for things I’m not personally involved in, but it’s an excellent newsletter, well worth your money. https://www.washingreview.com/p/wrbjuly-12-2023-82f