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PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

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Re: PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

#3

Post by hitekker »

> This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license.

What a nice, whimsical message.

Re: PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

#6

Post by verelo »

hitekker wrote: post #3

> This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license. What a nic…

It’s funny. For all the hate php gets these days, it was a pretty big part of the web getting to where it’s at today. I was super pleased when php 7 came out, this project isn’t going anywhere just yet.

Re: PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

#7

Post by simlevesque »

hitekker wrote: post #3

> This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license. What a nic…

I never say this, but this resonates with me.

Re: PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

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Post by cowmix »

My company sent (or tried to send) money to Rasmus back in '95 to have him implement a feature we needed. I think he ended up adding our ask to PHP for free. Anyway, good times.

Re: PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

#9

Post by simonw »

"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor was chosen as the official meaning of the PHP acronym with 53% of the votes."

For anyone curious I tallied the votes from the linked page:

    57 PHP HTML Preprocessor
    29 PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor
    98 PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

Re: PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)

#10

Post by osrec »

verelo wrote: post #6
hitekker wrote: post #3

> This may sound a little foreign to all you folks coming from a non-Unix background, but PHP doesn't cost anything. You can use it for commercial and/or non-commercial use all you want. You can give it to your friends, print it out and hang it on your wall or eat it for lunch. Welcome to the world of Open Source software! Smile, be happy, the world is good. For the full legalese, see the official license. What a nic…

It’s funny. For all the hate php gets these days, it was a pretty big part of the web getting to where it’s at today. I was super pleased when php 7 came out, this project isn’t going anywhere just yet.

PHP deliberately has a low barrier to entry, and as a result there is a lot of poor quality code out there, written by beginners. People like to use this fact to suggest that the entire language is bad, which it most certainly is not.

I've seen lots great, well structured and performant PHP code - the quality depends on the programmer, as it does for any other language.

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