Re: PHP vs. Zend paranoia?

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 03:10:36AM +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > >You may call it political, but people flock to contribute to PHP whereas I > >don't see people flocking to contribute to Zend Technologies Inc. > >Probably precisely because they see it as more of a company than an open > >source project. It is the same "unfair perception", as I think you called > >it, issue that people have with the license of the engine itself. But if > >that perception is keeping us from growing and improving because people > >shy away from contributing due to a perception (even if it is unfair) that > >their work is going directly to benefit a commercial organization, then we > >all lose in the end. PHP needs Zend, obviously, but Zend certainly also > >needs PHP. This relationship goes both ways and it needs to be carefully > >cultivated. > > You know better than anyone else that even in PHP 3 which featured a > scripting engine Zeev and I wrote (which had nothing to do with Zend Tech) > there still were barely any people who contributed to the scripting engine > itself. This is because there isn't that much work to be done there and Andi, you may recall that there were attempts to contribute to the scripting engine for PHP3 in past two years but discussion itself quickly gets down. You may remember constant proposals from Midgard team for extending scripting engine in general way, there were even code patches sent to the Zend Tech. stuff and mailing list midgard-zend at Midgard's site. Result of these efforts was zero-sized though. -- / Alexander Bokovoy --- grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines.