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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

First - I want to apologize, genuinely, to people who have felt fear, confusion, outrage, and any of the other hundreds of possible emotions a person might feel after reading some of what others have shared. When I first discovered Ruby, watching some crazy video where a blog was built in just a few minutes, I was just a young man working at a bank who would sometimes get paid to build software for other people on the side. Some of those companies specifically pay Ruby Central to ensure the security and stability of that part of the supply chain, but then discovered that people with no active affiliation or agreement in place had top level privileges to some of this critical infrastructure.

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