[Phpwm] too much M$ bashing

[Andy Cowan]

Anyway - I thought the point was that we should turn up in our various t-shirts and have a big hug. We're trying to be cross-platform!

A.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: phpwm-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:phpwm-
> bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mike Tipping
> Sent: 06 March 2009 13:24
> To: West Midlands PHP User Group
> Subject: Re: [Phpwm] too much M$ bashing
> 
> 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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