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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting irregularities
From: j.boggiano@seld.be (Jordi Boggiano)

On 15/03/2015 22:27, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>
>>> I don't think it's going to far, if you have people with no clue writing
>>> this:
>>>
>>> https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/ijoDNH2M8mB
>>
>> Do you know who Kristian is and how instrumental he was in the
>> proliferation of PHP?  How can you bring yourself to say he has no
>> clue?
>
> I certainly know who he is. I've been around as nearly as long as you've
> been. Anybody who's only argument is "You're turning PHP into Java" and
> basically says "we need four more against votes" has no clue. I don't
> care who says it.

I agree that past good deeds and contributions should not be a free pass 
for bad behavior. Not going to discuss the example at hand, but I think 
it's dangerous to say "it's ok he did good in the past".

Cheers
Jordi