Interestingly this becomes increasingly common. See DHH suddenly promoting a "pure" society in the UK while supporting the Shopify CEO, who in turns supports Trump. Recently Shopify also pulled rank in the ruby ecosystem; as a consequence the ruby core team seized power over rubygems + butler and evicted all former devs at the same time. Before that they went for arbitrary 100.000 download limits (I told them I don't agree that they disallow me from pulling my own projects; they did not listen so I removed my account at once - github doesn't hijack my projects like rubygems.org under shopify/RubyCentral control) or wanted to have mandatory 2FA for everyone. This is a corporate take-over - both in the ruby-ecosystem as well as GTK/GNOME. KDE also is going that way - see the "donate now" daemon, as well as Nate after that pocketing money for himself only: https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde...

Nate's attempt to defuse this failed dramatically. People become more and more problematic in open source. Many open source projects are turned into personal money-pots for a few, or straight up corporate-controlled shills. I miss the oldschool days here. Those things rarely happened from 2000 to 2010. Now they are suddenly widespread.

Edit: And, DHH sitting on Shopify board and leveraging it for more top-down control at the same time. Watch how former shopify employees jump out of nowhere telling you "we have no such bias", which is hilarious. They never admit to having signed any NDA, for instance; they will simply ignore this question if you ask them.