RE: [PHP] Why PHP ? - devil's advocate

> > We (the open source community) give you SO many options, empower > you with the > ability to do it your way, the ability to create your own way. > The thanks we > get? "So many different versions around..." !!!! > Listen, I don't *WANT* to distribute my software (C/C++) as open source. I am *NOT* part of the opensource community, I do *NOT* subscribe to the opensource ideals, yet linux is one of my target markets. The lack of standards on linux is going to be a problem for the rollout of commercial packages that depend on certain libraries that have a gazillion versions. Why NOT have a linux that has some kind of standard set of libraries whose behaviour you can depend on? (terminal, threading, libc, c++ libraries, just to name a few.) There's not a single reason why standarisation would be harmful. And nowhere in my previous statement did I mention Microsoft. And I salute all those opensource programmers that work 9 hours a day on opensource projects and still become millionaires. If I could only figure out how they do that, then maybe I'd go opensource too...