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See the link in the third paragraph of this fine article.


Discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390


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Where to start...

DHH created Rails, but he didn't write Rails - a large community did. This is an attempt to be factual. Linus created Linux, but he didn't write Linux. Etc.

Criticizing an *individual* for stopping to *donate* is pointless.


You picked ONE of the controversial things DHH has written about, and you chose one of the least controversial ones.


That was the only one I found! What's the worst then?


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See also the incident ca. 2021 when a third of 37signals employees left the company over heavy-handed policing of employee speech[0].

0. https://www.platformer.news/-what-really-happened-at-basecam...


Sounds like the heavy hand was needed tbh. Who thinks that kind of behaviour is ok at work?


I came to Rails much later. Can you link me to some examples?


Someone shared this on this thread: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64


Supporting Canadian truckers was a straw? And that somehow broke the camels back because of misogyny in slides and booth ads (showing a pretty girl?).

Because of this they lost a 250,000 sponsorship from sideiq which then gave leverage to shopify to takeover the community because of a fear of this rv tool.

In the end their communities purity tests lost them everything.


You need only skim his blog to see why. He’s increasingly hostile to minorities of all sorts.

Beyond that, Mike (author of Sidekiq) is more than welcome to withdrawal his funding as he wishes. That’s how this works.




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