Re: Re: Protect PHP coding

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrey Hristov" <ahristov@icygen.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Protect PHP coding > The people for Zend have to eat to live. > People, if there is no Zend there is no core for PHP. This is the same as > with MySQL. MySQL is free under GPL > but has no subselects because the companies that has commercial licenses > didn't wanted that - Monty has > to eat and he codes other features. As always this advice below is open-source and GPL'd. IF mysql required me to buy it just so I can use subselects I would not buy it....and I would take a beating from my friends for using sub-selects. => Furthermore, if PHP, which I have been around since RASMUS first made it available, was to require that I needed some module which cost me or my company alot of money I would be looking for a new tool. I dont know if Zeev and Rasmus talk about this but what happens when ZEND and PHP come to odds? IE ZEND wants to charge for the code? Hell, Im not against anyone making some money or even get filthy stinkin rich but I dont want to pay $3,000 for php. I'd pay $50 a year though. I'd pay $50.00 USD for the zend encoder and core php. I'd pay $100.00USD if I could get a say (vote) on which new features are a good idea. >. I just want the people from Zend to continue > their tremendous work and > we will have PHP5 and PHP6 and so on otherwise start learning ASP or JSP. And if they dont continue I will go back to perl....there are always alternatives toASP?JSP junkbox .. -ccma