Seems like a few old scores are being settled during this drama. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people on the side of RubyGems are avoiding commenting in case any legal disputes play out.
I don't understand poverty statistics. With this news, the UK now has more people living in poverty than India (16% vs 22%?). If it is valuable to judge poverty on relative income, you would think the rational course of action would be mass immigration from the UK to India but that is clearly not the case.
Well,
1. He's not fighting Ruby Central anymore, he'd be fighting the Ruby core team.
2. He's going to have a tough time asserting copyright on a name he didn't come up with on a project which shipped v1 before he joined.
3. If he believes the trademark belongs to the community, the right thing to do would be to transfer it to Ruby Core then, right?