Re: Interesting

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Daniel E. Markle wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 06:02:58PM -0500, Jason Pincin wrote:
> > to do a public release until the product is usable.
> 
> Perhaps, but it is not common in free software development as I have noticed,
> releasing as soon as a reasonably sized codebase has been reached seems to be
> common.  The announcement before it is released at all bothered me more than 
> this.  As if they had some competition they were worried about.  

It is uncommon, but not unheard of.  I take it more as annoucing their
work to see if they can get some sponsorship/more people to help.  Not a
horrible thing IMHO.
 
> > side will be for commercial users only... zend itself will be released as
> 
> I didn't pick up on this.  Are you talking charging commercial users or the
> usual charge for support deal?

I think what he's refering to is the fact that the web page code will not
be viewable (like HTML is) thereby hiding the site's code.  This is useful
for mostly commercial sites, etc.  While I'm a big fan of letting people
learn from each others web page code, I don't condone stealing it without
permission.  Also by hiding the web page code, you can help secure embeded
data.

I think this is cool.  But it's not going to be ready by their estimates
for another 6 months or so... too long for me to wait. :-)  Maybe we can
look at it later if PHP becomes a major part of the site (possible, but
not likely right now).

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