Re: microsoft PHP ?

Gerry Danen wrote:

Come on, you should have played along... ;-)

I'd had my fill by the time that arrived. It seems to me that people go overboard now. Slashdot used to have one a year, and it was always something that was vaguely possible, this year they've even changed the colour scheme on the site. Shame really. -Stut

On 4/1/06, *Stut* <stuttle@gmail.com <mailto:stuttle@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Zouari Fourat wrote:

here's the link

    http://phpro.org/articles/Microsoft-Purchases-Zend-for-$113-Million.html

    Seriously... consider the date.

    -Stut

On 4/1/06, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com <mailto:stuttle@gmail.com>>

    wrote:

Zouari Fourat wrote:

I've just heard about Microsoft deal, the geant bought the Zend platform at 113 million US$. What will be the php future ? it's gonna switch to proprietary

    licence

? closed source ? or it was a Zend product deal ? (zend studio, platform ...) not affecting the php language in itself ? Does this mean that all efforts done in open source by

    thousands of

people around the world to get a web scripting language at a high entreprise level is now bought by Micrsoft ? Where did you hear this? Have you considered the date? Have you considered how unlikely it is? Have you ever sought professional

    help?

-Stut