Popular Sovereignty
Matt Mullenweg: PHP core has never shown any particular regard for its biggest apps, as evidenced by the above bug and others, so I’m not sure why we should go out of our way to promote their upgrade. [emphasis added]
Approximately eight years ago I submitted an outline of an approach to integrate PHP4 with Java. The response was (in essence, I can’t find it at the moment) “here is your CVS account”. This fundamentally changed my notion of us and them.