Unfortunately history tells me that php like ColdFusion will one day be bought out by the big corporates, or at least they'll have a considerable financial vested interest in it.
Not likely. Since PHP is open source if Zend decided to change the license I'm certain it would be forked and continued as an open source project. This is the basis of why open source software is so popular and also why there is negligible gain to be had by Zend in changing the license.
At which time we hope way off in the future, we'll all have to start paying for support and maintenance contracts.
EVen if it did happen you'd be in no different a position than you are now. This mailing list is primarily user-supported and would likely continue even if PHP became a commercial product (which it won't - see above).
If you want commercial support for PHP you can get it. And you'll pay for it.
Allaire owned ColdFusion, the developer network was extremely co-operative, then joint venture between Macromedia and Allaire, now if you want good old assistance you need a "Devnet" contract.
ColdFusion was never open source (afaik). That's the difference.
For more info on what 'open source' actually means, see http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
-- Stuart
-- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
