[amanzi]

The way that Tim was treated was disgraceful. Definitely made me less likely to participate in the Python forums.

Edit - I should clarify that my main concern was the way that all of his alleged offences were collectively summarised into one long list of offences, making them all seem worse collectively. But as Chris McDonough explained in his post, each "offence" was either trivial in nature, or completely taken out of context and made to sound much worse than what it was.

[TZubiri]

I think the bottom line is that the PSF or whatever the US 501c3 is ends up losing credibility.

The decentralized nature of software means that the people, Guido Van, or Tim Peters, hold the power, not some legal entity and its bureocratic bylaws.