It's really hard to not blame the creators when SO MANY things in PHP are fucked up. I would wager a good bit of cash that this isn't the only "wtf-moment" this

It's really hard to not blame the creators when SO MANY things in PHP are fucked up. I would wager a good bit of cash that this isn't the only "wtf-moment" this guy's dealing with in terms of his day-to-day PHP adventures, and it was simply the straw that broke the camels back. Couple that with an innate misunderstanding of how open source works and a bit of idiocy, and you got the motivation for this bug report.