“Consider the karma implications of cursing the driver”
Matt Mullenweg has been critical of the PHP core team for abandoning PHP 4. Sam Ruby calls him out and says with open source projects there is no “Us” versus “Them” since you can freely join “Them” whenever you want. Matt replies:
What I think is missing is an understanding of what made PHP 4 such a killer update to 3, where 5 didn’t compel as many people. I also think there is a deeper discussion around language usability from a casual web coder’s point of view. As this comment say there can be a decreasing marginal utility. Every language doesn’t have to do everything. That’s what I was hoping to get people talking about, and it worked.
And Sam replies:
Those that contribute to PHP apparently feel the most pain concerning support of multiple versions. Yes, you can argue that they brought this upon themselves; but it is worth noting that at this point you are along for the ride. When I’m in similar circumstances, I tend to consider the karma implications of cursing the driver.
Read the whole thing, it’s worth it.