Re: Things move slowly in the real world ;)

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>wrote: > > I'm lead to believe that the date was chosen simply because they do > consider > > the situation a bit of a joke ... > > Speaking as a current and long-time customer of 1and1 hosting, I do > believe that their business situation is a bit of a joke. I know this > is not a list to talk about various hosting providers, but I'll just > say I won't be doing business with them for much longer. This is just > another point of feedback I can give to them when I do change service. > Incorrectly reporting your service offering regardless of what type of > business you run is a really poor decision. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I think we should do what Microsoft does with Windows and just pull version names out of a hat. We could call 5.5 "PHP XP" and 5.6 "PHP Vista". A separate branch with slightly more features could be called "PHP Vista Ultimate" and hosting providers could use a custom-branded one called "PHP Vista Ultimate for Workgroups." We could release 6.0 right now with tons of bugs and call it "PHP Derp," then a few months later put out 6.1 as "PHP 7." The goal should be to confuse the hell out of our users as much as possible. Step 1: Confuse users. Step 3: Profit. Seriously, though, 1and1 is a joke. That's not exactly breaking news. If it really bugs us that much, we could always put up a statement on the website rebuking their misrepresentation of our version numbering and leak it to a few tech blogs. Otherwise, it's probably best to just laugh it off and move on. --Kris