In the event the ruby-reddit moderators remove it, the comment had this content verbatim at the time of linking to it here:
"I have tried so much. It’s Ruby Central that won’t talk. They’re hiding behind lawyers at this point."
Now, we have to concede that this could be wrong; or incomplete. Personally I believe him though, but in theory it could be a wrong statement. Nonetheless ... just think about this for a moment ...
The organisation that claims it is all about the community, refuses to be transparent and now hides behind lawyers, after having been caught with making several incorrect statements before already. Does this look more like a community-centric organisation or possibly a front for corporations? Just think it through for yourself what it means when they suddenly have to hide behind lawyers.
In my opinion they are now deliberately making the community angry. But, even without this, I believe we can conclude that by far the biggest fault for all of this lies on Ruby Central.
-> In my opinion they are now deliberately making the community angry.
This is one thing I think hasn't been talked about explicitly enough within the community (that I see at least) yet, Ruby Central seems to be actively trolling the 'other side' of this situation. It reads to me like they know they have the lawyer power to defend their castle and are enjoying pissing down on people and telling them it's raining. Oh and you should enjoy that because it means there will be flowers soon... or something.
I think the dialogue of 'are they acting in good faith' only works in so far as they even care about the rest of the Ruby community at all. If they are indeed bad actors (motivated purely by greed, ambition, ego, etc) then they are not ever going to come clean and they would let the whole Ruby community die before they admit defeat or wrongheadedness. My favorite term for these types of actors is SCUM - Sufficiently Clever and Uncaring Malefactors.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1nzxgb9/buckle_up_the...
In the event the ruby-reddit moderators remove it, the comment had this content verbatim at the time of linking to it here:
"I have tried so much. It’s Ruby Central that won’t talk. They’re hiding behind lawyers at this point."
Now, we have to concede that this could be wrong; or incomplete. Personally I believe him though, but in theory it could be a wrong statement. Nonetheless ... just think about this for a moment ...
The organisation that claims it is all about the community, refuses to be transparent and now hides behind lawyers, after having been caught with making several incorrect statements before already. Does this look more like a community-centric organisation or possibly a front for corporations? Just think it through for yourself what it means when they suddenly have to hide behind lawyers.
In my opinion they are now deliberately making the community angry. But, even without this, I believe we can conclude that by far the biggest fault for all of this lies on Ruby Central.