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php vs. the beast

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:40 pm
by joeda
i recently read an article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... t.asp?_r=1 , aside from being a shamless plug for creativity-robbing-industry-stealing-greedy-ass m$ product i found the article intriguing.

one of my clients asked me why people use php and not some m$ product instead. i was just wondering what is y'alls take on this. i feel that open source products (apache/php) have become so popular because it doesn't cost a friggin' fortune to learn.

am i being idealistic in thinking that the appeal in open source is driven by a desire to become better developers? and that m$ won't completely wipe out open source because the desire to code is bigger than the $$?

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 11:57 pm
by evilcoder
I think because open source is free, thats why people use it.

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 12:36 pm
by discobean
IMHO open source languages just seem to be a bit more well thought out than the equivalent tight ass microsoft or macromedia languages.