By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:22:22 +0000

What worries me are several things (oh, and be aware that I’m into pessimistic, but I merely try to assess the risk and present worst-case scenarios in case they become a reality, which they might):

Zend’s Gutmann’s praising of Microsoft, which I see in the news almost every week now. He sort of invites others to join hands with Microsoft and not to be afraid. That’s just what Microsoft wants and it already has de Icaza for this
Embrace and extend. Need one say more? Imagine a version of PHP which is ‘enhanced’ and only works properly (or better) with Server Windows 2008. Just look at Java. Microsoft can stifle interoperability/cross-platform and even provide PHP developers an SDK that encourages the building of WIndows-esque code. Think about FrontPage or even about Microsoft’s latest development suite, which encourages the use of Silverlight. Several hours ago Mary Jo Foley boasted a new interview with her on Channel Nine, but Linux users are out of luck. Guess why?

By: DarkPhoenix

DarkPhoenix — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:56:45 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about Microsoft hijacking PHP. There are now multiple implementations of the PHP language itself, and at least one is GPL’ed. Ultimately, it’s not PHP that Microsoft will take; it’s Zend. And I don’t believe for a second that the FLOSS programmers that have worked on PHP for years will suddenly agree to work for Microsoft’s benefit, not to mention what normally happens when Microsoft attempts to take a piece of software they’ve already got a separate solution for, and the fact that PHP is still obviously designed to be run in tandem with Apache…

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