I'm one of them. It was disgusting frankly how they banned him for _alleged_ violations and never bother to provide and evidence of sort. Tim was just too nice, but if I were as popular as he was back then and a rather popular forum lodged such heavy accusations, I would be drafting defamation lawsuit in a heartbeat. Tim was just too nice of a gentleman to bother. As a senior programmer back then working in one of the major European's country ESPs designing sites, I quickly moved to PHP and never look back. Heck even today going to some of these websites designed 25 years ago, they still run PHP and are free of Python. And when I was handed redesign of at least 30 sites (in a span of 2 years), I took .py code and ended up with .php