PHP Closes Its Source
April 1, 2010
In a very unexpected turn of events, the PHP Wordlwide Consortium has decided to turn PHP into a closed source proprietary project and has sold the rights to the code base to Danish software company Løøf Lirpa. The company has said it’ll start collecting royalties from functioning PHP installations within sixty days. Dum Vittighed, VP of Sales at Løøf Lirpa said “We care about the community, but you can’t expect us to wok for free. We’ll set the license price at about one Danish Kroner per one hundred CPU cycles.”
Lasmus Rerdorf was quoted saying “What do you expect? With the upcoming release of Facebook’s R&B PHP there’s no way we can compete; PHP cannot continue to exist in its current form.”
Unsurprisingly, the community received the news with anger. In an unprecedented show of solidarity and unity, Ruby and Python developers joined forces with PHP enthusiats and flooded the streets of major cities worldwide under the slogan “We are all PHP.” Still, not everyone is in agreement. One very well known community leader that asked to remain anonymous said “It’s time to turn this over to a handful of engineers that can do the right thing, the community has ran its course.”
It seems that the only way of avoiding the fees is renaming any publicly accessible .php files as .rff (royalty free file), yet it hasn’t been fully tested against Løøf Lirpa’s fee-collection script. Alternatively developers can opt to downgrade to PHP 3 or earlier as it will remain open source for the foreseeable future.
Tags: Development, News, omg, php
7 Responses to “PHP Closes Its Source”
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Rahul says:
Nice try…
Dont u think its obvious that “Løøf Lirpa” is April Fool
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Matthiasvdh says:
Clue: since they don’t exist, the PHP Worldwide Consortium does not own the rights to PHP.
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Some other clues:
- Even if PHP become closed source tomorrow, all the code released until today still remain open under the same license
- It’s impossible to charge based on the CPU cycles because the vendor has no way to audit that.Good joke by the way.
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You got me there for a sec.
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Nice try, but I’m not going to believe anything published on April 1st.
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