[shakingmyhead]

I suspect he doesn't want to face the fact that it was maybe a bad idea in the first place. It's hard to own up to mistakes. I've been there.

[basscomm]

I suspect that the argument of "You should violate your personal principles because I want you to (just this once for me, and then you can go back to not violating them)" coming from an anonymous account on an internet message board is too flimsy to consider.

[shakingmyhead]

I think his principled stance that his contributions to an open source project have to include holocaust jokes is not very compelling or principled.