[Phpwm] too much M$ bashing

[BinaryKitten]

 From what I gather, rather than hijacking PHP they are more interested 
in making a php binary that will work the best it can on the Windows 
Platform. From our (the developers) side this should mean that PHP will 
work better than before on the windows platform. That being said, it 
doesn't stop some of the "improvements" to the PHP Binary being 
transposed into the other platform versions.

I apologise if I missed the point, I only got J 's mail in the thread 
and replied to that.

Kat

Andy Cowan wrote:
> You seem to misunderstand the point I'm making - I want PHP to continue to be usable *cross platform* - i.e. I can deploy on whatever server OS I choose for a project - Windows, Linux, or OS X, whatever suits the project and the client. I don't want to be forced to to write code that is specific to a particular vendor's flavour of PHP and then be stuck with their server platform.
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> The thread is about M$ making it more difficult for us to keep a choice of platforms, not bashing M$ for developing a rubbish web server. I for one am concerned that they are trying to hijack PHP to try and force me to buy their servers.
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> And while we're at it, without trying to start a religious war, the goalposts in our space (i.e. web servers, scripting languages, web databases, server operating systems) weren't set by M$ or Apple. They were set by BSDi, FreeBSD and later Linux. Apache, PHP and MySQL. M$ were late to the party, and when they arrived, they only brought cheap lager when everyone else had brought champagne. They're catching up now, which is good - as long as they don't end up dictating how we write code and where we can deploy it.
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> A.