[Phpwm] too much M$ bashing

[Alex Mace]

Black turtlenecks and jeans for us Mac folk please!

On 6 Mar 2009, at 13:23, Mike Tipping wrote:

> 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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