Re: Microsoft Partners With Zend

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 23:08 +0200, Sancar Saran wrote: > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 21:37, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > No comments? > > > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/31/2047209.shtml > > > Well once upon a time one of great M$ exec say "We can write better software > than OSS). After more than 3 or 4 years we still waiting better Browser, Web > Server etc. > > I do not expect from M$ learn someting from ZEND and put into ASP.NET or > someting like that. Php was already opensourced. If M$ wants to steal > someting, code already there. > > In worst scenario, because of windows user base and windows based income ZEND > may degraded Linux support or we may see new options or performance > enhancements for windows only. > > so We will see that... > > Don't be afraid, GPL licence was uber protection for us. > > And thats why M$ execs calls it 'cancer'. Theri EEE tactics does not work > aginst GPL. > > And writing windows native applications with php under Visual Studio may be > interesting... PHP isn't GPL, it's free without the viral aspect. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'