Re: Re: Protect PHP coding

Hello, On 08/04/2002 11:55 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote:

Just a couple of facts: 1. If Zend did not exist, PHP 4 wouldn't have existed, at least not in any way similar to what PHP 4 looks like today. FYI, with PHP 3, it was impossible to write accelerators, encoders, debuggers and whatnot.

You're assumption is completely wrong because if you guys would never existed or contributed to PHP, somebody else would have done it. You are definetly not the only ones in the universe that could have developed a better PHP engine. PHP already was popular before PHP 4. Chances are that somebody else could have done the same or better then your Zend engine.

There are 3 million PHP based web sites in the world. Only a fragment of them use accelerators or encoders, and you know something? They're doing pretty darn well.

There are plenty of other uses for PHP than the Web, despite you do not want to promote PHP for that. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos