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I had a similar reaction when I came across it 4 months ago. I spent an hour or two refactoring it, including turning it into a valid Ruby gem.

PR here: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/Rx.rb/pull/1

The pull request sat in limbo until just over a week ago when Matt asked me to sign the Microsoft open source contributor agreement, which I haven't got around to yet.

Unfortunately I don't hold much hope for the library in its current state.

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The fact that you have to sign a contributor agreement is cause enough to leave it alone or fork it. I read through your commit comments, read "Please sign this agreement" and thought to myself "this is why Microsoft is dying. They just can't join the rest of us here in the present."

Yeah, I'm in two minds as to whether I'll bother signing it.

It's mostly just sad, because I had so much enthusiasm for the library when I first found it which has now simply dissipated. Oh well.

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