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It doesn't really matter if it's a non-profit. How do you think your company would react if you started raising money using their name?


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!


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?


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


How about now?


Why in the world would my opinion have changed?




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