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That "Executive Director" (whose salary is probably safe throughout all controversies!) does not sound very credible compared to:

https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-inci...

I'm only going by the corporate narrative structure of the director's post, who clearly wants to throw someone under the bus and cover up organizational incompetence. "Open" source has become so despicable.

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Are you alleging that the screenshotted email isn't authentic? I'm only making a claim about that, not anything else.

I can't comment on any authenticity. Others here apparently dispute Andre's version, who clearly says he was on call:

"As this situation occurred, I was the primary on-call. My contractual, paid responsibility to Ruby Central was to defend the RubyGems.org service against potential threats."

I'm referring to the email containing the monetization offer, not the later controversy regarding disputedly-authorized access to the AWS account.

He ran the idea by a group of people, nothing more. We can disagree with it — so did RC — but that was it: bouncing an idea.

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