Re: Re: cvs: CVSROOT / avail loginfo

On Nov 29, 2007 6:03 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Marcus Boerger wrote: > > > I do not care for IBM problems. Not at all. If people want to commit > > they can do it in their free time. If IBM now thinks they have to make > > PHP suitable for their own stuff then they are obviously willing to > > spend quite some interest because they have a much bigger business > > interest. That said I am confident they can find ways to deal with it > > inside IBM itself. But they do not like to do it as that would be much > > more expensive for them. Also the trouble is that then they would need > > to be real open source. > > To add to this, I think that if IBM (and others) are so keen on having > PHP support their nice databases, they should also realize that it is > them that should be nice to *us* and not the other way around. We (as in > PHP project) shouldn't have to change the ways how we're dealing with > contributions at all. It should be the big companies that actually have > a financial interested in PHP supporting their software that open up > more and appease us. > > regards, > Derick > > -- > Derick Rethans > http://derickrethans.nl | > http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org > Well, like I said at the tail of my last message, I was exhausted. This morning, over a nice, hot cup of coffee (very welcome after coming in from the snow outside), I took a better look at the whole thing. That, coupled with your responses (thank you, Rasmus, Marcus, and Derick), gives a much clearer picture. What concerns me now is that I - and I'm sure many others - wasn't even aware of this until this thread popped up. It almost seems like the beginnings of a long-term hostile takeover plan, beginning quietly in the shadows. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 If at first you don't succeed, stick to what you know best so that you can make enough money to pay someone else to do it for you.