[Phpwm] too much M$ bashing

[Mike Tipping]

So next Tuesday shall we all turn up either wearing a Windows or a Linux
T-Shirt and have a big fight.

Get it all sorted out once and for all.


On 6/3/09 12:36, "BinaryKitten" <atolade at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> A.
> 
> 
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