On Nov 29, 2007 6:03 AM, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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>
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.
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