Скачать или смотреть Learning from the RubyGems fiasco with Mike McQuaid (Homebrew) and

Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems [debacle](https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems...) to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep!

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LINKS:

https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaki...
https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems...
https://web.archive.org/web/202509302...
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-s...
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/202...

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Cross-posts & Friends
00:54 The reason for the bleeps
02:32 Setting the stage
05:18 The root access event
09:34 What Ruby Central is
11:14 Back to the story
14:43 Mea culpa, anyone?
18:50 Two more timeline things
30:10 A five-alarm fire
31:31 Muddy money
36:43 Jerod pre-empts Justin
37:21 Justin has the floor
43:27 Open source as a hobby
48:17 Abstract pattern
49:14 The lemonade stand
51:02 The best things in life
1:03:43 Making money music
1:06:09 Conflating things
1:10:08 What Gen "Zed" thinks
1:14:49 What if no dependencies
1:16:48 Justin lives it
1:21:36 Mike on Copilot
1:26:51 Moving up the value chain
1:29:56 The times are a changin'
1:31:31 Obligatory pithy one-liners
1:35:02 Unhappy maintainers should quit
1:35:22 Bye, friends