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Freedom Dumlao
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Freedom Dumlao writes Freedom’s Substack, a personal blog at apiguy.substack.com about programming and business. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack by Freedom Dumlao, a board member's perspective on the Ruby Central and RubyGems dispute, as the other side of the story. Comments discuss the funding and governance conflict.
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My personal Substack. Launched a year ago.
Most-linked posts?
- A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-09-21
What Hacker News says?
The other side of the story came out, and of course, it’s very reasonable https://apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-members-perspective-of...
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on “Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]”Submitted A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy as a story · 104 points
HN discussionThe rubygems treasurer who is on the board said funding was conditional on doing this[0][1]. One interesting thing is that Ruby Central then said "Board decisions are independent and not contingent on funding."[2]. Doesn't inspire a lot of trust when there is a statement from a board member saying "we did this because of funding". I'm more inclined to believe Joel's account. [0] A deadline (which as far as I underst…
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on “Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler”Submitted A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSeems to boil down to "we don't trust Andre[0] and btw Shopify totally didn't make us do this[1]". I still don't understand the mistrust of Andre though. Also, the second point seems a bit disingenuous when their own board member speaks about a specific deadline[2]. He says it's something they agreed to, so it's necessarily external. That and the teams of reports of other people saying they've heard it's Shopify put…
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on “Our stewardship: Where we are, what's changing and how we'll engage”> Ruby Central’s actions during this period were taken in response to a breakdown in a working relationship with an individual who had significant access to infrastructure and code. This is the first time they’ve actually admitted that this was all about Andre. > At the time, we believed a serious risk had been introduced to RubyGems and related services. This doesn’t add up. Access was revoked and then temporarily…
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on “A Message from the Ruby Central Board”