[Phpwm] too much M$ bashing

[Andy Cowan]

Beat me too it - I was going for the turtleneck gag!

A.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:phpwm-
> bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alex Mace
> Sent: 06 March 2009 13:28
> To: West Midlands PHP User Group
> Subject: Re: [Phpwm] too much M$ bashing
> 
> 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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