Re: The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You don't remember gophp5.org and its knockoff stopphp5.org, do you?  
That's okay, either does Mike.  :)

In fact, gophp5.org was one of the leading evangelists for PHP5, and on 
their very website, they have this paragraph:

"PHP developers cannot leverage PHP 5's full potential without dropping 
support for PHP 4, but PHP 4 is still installed on a majority of shared 
web hosts and users would then be forced to switch to a different 
application."

Reading a little further:

"The PHP developer community has decided that it is indeed now time to 
move forward, together. Therefore, the listed software projects have all 
agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, any new feature releases will 
have a minimum version requirement of at least PHP 5.2.0."

Notice the concept?  They had to force folks off of PHP4.

Read the rest of the website.  I'm not saying it's any sort of scathing 
indictment of PHP.  But it will certainly put the issue of Oracle and 
the future of Java into some perspective.  And I will look on with 
interest as PHP6 comes out.  It's already been lots of high drama.  
Google Jani Taskinen and the PHP6 trunk... March was a high old time for 
the PHP language. :)

Joe


> About the only PHP battle that I know of was way back in the PHP3 vs. PHP4 days.  Many GPL projects retained PHP3 compatibility because PHP3 had a GPL license option and PHP4 didn't.