[Phpwm] too much M$ bashing

[Chris Lovell]

Only if some of us are morbidly obese.

(yes yes, politically incorrect, but hey)

2009/3/6 Alex Mace <alex at hollytree.co.uk>

> Is this part of the embrace, extend, extinguish strategy?
>
> On 6 Mar 2009, at 13:31, Andy Cowan wrote:
>
> > 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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