Only if some of us are morbidly obese.<br><br>(yes yes, politically incorrect, but hey)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/6 Alex Mace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@hollytree.co.uk">alex@hollytree.co.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is this part of the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy?<br>
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On 6 Mar 2009, at 13:31, Andy Cowan wrote:<br>
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> Anyway - I thought the point was that we should turn up in our<br>
> various t-shirts and have a big hug. We're trying to be cross-<br>
> platform!<br>
><br>
> A.<br>
><br>
><br>
>> -----Original Message-----<br>
>> From: <a href="mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:phpwm-">phpwm-</a><br>
>> <a href="mailto:bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Mike Tipping<br>
>> Sent: 06 March 2009 13:24<br>
>> To: West Midlands PHP User Group<br>
>> Subject: Re: [Phpwm] too much M$ bashing<br>
>><br>
>> So next Tuesday shall we all turn up either wearing a Windows or a<br>
>> Linux<br>
>> T-Shirt and have a big fight.<br>
>><br>
>> Get it all sorted out once and for all.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 6/3/09 12:36, "BinaryKitten" <<a href="mailto:atolade@ntlworld.com">atolade@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> From what I gather, rather than hijacking PHP they are more<br>
>> interested<br>
>>> in making a php binary that will work the best it can on the Windows<br>
>>> Platform. From our (the developers) side this should mean that PHP<br>
>> will<br>
>>> work better than before on the windows platform. That being said, it<br>
>>> doesn't stop some of the "improvements" to the PHP Binary being<br>
>>> transposed into the other platform versions.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I apologise if I missed the point, I only got J 's mail in the<br>
>>> thread<br>
>>> and replied to that.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Kat<br>
>>><br>
>>> Andy Cowan wrote:<br>
>>>> You seem to misunderstand the point I'm making - I want PHP to<br>
>> continue to be<br>
>>>> usable *cross platform* - i.e. I can deploy on whatever server OS I<br>
>> choose<br>
>>>> for a project - Windows, Linux, or OS X, whatever suits the project<br>
>> and the<br>
>>>> client. I don't want to be forced to to write code that is specific<br>
>> to a<br>
>>>> particular vendor's flavour of PHP and then be stuck with their<br>
>> server<br>
>>>> platform.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> The thread is about M$ making it more difficult for us to keep a<br>
>> choice of<br>
>>>> platforms, not bashing M$ for developing a rubbish web server. I<br>
>>>> for<br>
>> one am<br>
>>>> concerned that they are trying to hijack PHP to try and force me to<br>
>> buy their<br>
>>>> servers.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> And while we're at it, without trying to start a religious war, the<br>
>> goalposts<br>
>>>> in our space (i.e. web servers, scripting languages, web databases,<br>
>> server<br>
>>>> operating systems) weren't set by M$ or Apple. They were set by<br>
>> BSDi, FreeBSD<br>
>>>> and later Linux. Apache, PHP and MySQL. M$ were late to the party,<br>
>> and when<br>
>>>> they arrived, they only brought cheap lager when everyone else had<br>
>> brought<br>
>>>> champagne. They're catching up now, which is good - as long as they<br>
>> don't end<br>
>>>> up dictating how we write code and where we can deploy it.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> A.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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