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I'm starkly opposed to this ridiculous fragmenting of the community. They can and should all go work out contribution agreements with RubyCentral and get over their egos.

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What makes you think they _haven't_ tried to work things out with Ruby Central? As per a separate article[1], this seems to be a last resort:

> “Since Ruby Central has informed us they will never allow us to continue working on the projects they now claim they own, that we successfully maintained and operated for the last ten years, the former RubyGems team is launching gem.coop today.”

[1]: https://socket.dev/blog/gem-cooperative-emerges-as-a-communi...

I suspect many of these maintainers are making absurd ultimatums of RubyCentral.

That's a strange suspicion. Why?

Because many mass-resigned unless Andre was re-instated.

I think many mass resigned when their commit access was taken away from their own project by a company that doesn't have a right to do that.

Some people might consider that a dick move.

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