This level of incomprehensible drama is somehow the norm for open source projects. Lexicon around it is always the same. Problems are so far removed from real life that it's hard to understand what happened to whom. Why is it so widespread?
Yes, similar thing happened with Ruby gems community some days ago. Did the contributors got their access back now or Shopify is still controlling all the affairs?
Because they're unpaid volunteers that spent a good chunk of their free time working on something and then something changes in its governance which makes them no longer feel valued?
Again?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/20/asahi_linux_asahi_lin...
This level of incomprehensible drama is somehow the norm for open source projects. Lexicon around it is always the same. Problems are so far removed from real life that it's hard to understand what happened to whom. Why is it so widespread?
Is it, really? Most open source projects seem pretty boring. Just people doing their thing.
Yes, similar thing happened with Ruby gems community some days ago. Did the contributors got their access back now or Shopify is still controlling all the affairs?
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It just takes one bad apple to spoil the entire batch.
This crap is why women look at me funny when I tell them I speak fluent Japanese as a white guy.
Because they're unpaid volunteers that spent a good chunk of their free time working on something and then something changes in its governance which makes them no longer feel valued?
How is that difficult to comprehend?