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> they can pay the PHP community (or someone in it) to change it back The decision was defended on its own merit, so I would be really disappointed if bringing
by adambyrtek 14y ago
> they can pay the PHP community (or someone in it) to change it back
The decision was defended on its own merit, so I would be really disappointed if bringing money to the table affected the outcome. Funding open source development is great as long as meritocracy is maintained. That's why Linus never accepted a job at a company that had a stake in pushing Linux in a certain direction.
- rbanffy 14y agoIf they could prove that the change would create a really huge expenditure and would thus damage the community, I assume a workaround could be reached through the normal democratic decision process. I imagine a config option to restore the original functionality would be a nice solution, but I'd suggest the company should fund its development (along with proper tests and associated code).
- jiggy2011 14y agoIf they kept config files to control every altered behaviour PHP configuration would be an even bigger mess than it is already.