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.