On Derick Rethans' blog today, he has an "intersting" note about a piece of "fanmail" he recieved after some of the changes he made to adjust PHP's stability.

I got a very nice email in my inbox from a PHP user concerning my "extreme hostility to the PHP community in general". This is ofcourse regarding my "fix" to combat PHP's stability (in other words, the "memory corruption" bug). The guy in question was acusing me that I "have acted just like Microsoft and eliminated a HUGE reason for PHP's success".

Then my fan suggested that it is "time you [red. I] moved on, learn how to listen to a user base, or quit PHP before you kill it".

Sure, some of the things that we do can be considered as "unpopular" as sometimes we need to fix a bug that breaks older scripts that relied on the buggy behavior. And yes, those scripts and applications needs to be fixed than which indeed takes time.

You should respect the work that volunteers put into PHP, and if are not happy with what we do with our spare time, donate some of your own.

I think the post mostly speaks for itself - especially that last comment. Don't complain unless there's something you're going to do about it. See a problem? Change it - that's part of the beauty that is Open Source...