From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2009-08-21T23:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Why, oh why, _why?

On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:07, Jason Roelofs wrote:
> It's definitely too late now, or we would have heard if he got  
> hacked. He
> closed up shop and destroyed almost a decade's worth of Ruby  
> information,

Destroy it?  Didn't he just make it unavailable?  And it wasn't as if  
what he took away was the community's documentation of Ruby, just his  
own projects to which other people had contributed.

It could have been handled better, but it's hardly more than "I'm  
taking my ball and going home".

Considering all the good he did for Ruby over the years, all for free,  
I don't think anybody should be overly critical of an abrupt departure.

Ben