This is a conditional surrender. Andre Arko & friends maintain their claim on the moral high ground while offering RubyCentral everything else the company wanted all along.

Andre's new condition is to have a "legal agreement" to settle "legal claims". I suppose a court of law looks unfavorably upon him registering a false trademark and ssh'ing into a former company's service from a foreign country (among other acts).

Partly due those revelations, Andre's supporters seemed to have simmered down recently. I assume word has put out that further oversharing and politiking would be legally consequential.