Some people just don't get it.

goldbug

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4008031a.2618703%40news.cable.ntlworld.com

vaska

that...is...hilarious...v

Elizabeth

OMG... and he calls himself a "programmer" - albeit his purpose in initially creating the thread was to "copy someone else's work".

Yikes I say.

BuzzLY

Yikes indeed. Whenever that guy gets a clue (if ever), he's gonna feel pretty stupid LOL

planetsim

:eek: I didnt know people could get that stupid.

piersk

<sweeping generalisation>
Well, the fact that he uses ntl should have given that away
</sweeping generalisation>

I posted a reply. It said that it would take about 9 hrs for it to come up on the page, so keeo an eye out...

LordShryku

Wow....I'm without words....the stupidity has left me speechless. Wow. That's all I can say. Wow.

Merve

I thought I was clueless when it came to computers.

Weedpacket

But you have to admit the guy's got a point! I don't know what it is (he doesn't know the difference between a program and the output of a program), but he's got a point!

Now, if only all programmers wrote by stealing code from other programmers....

weekender

oh, i'm halfway through a java app for uni and i feel a prank forming in my mind

so here it is. I email php nobber and say i've heard he is a programmer and i need a simple php site scripting. I will pay over the odds to get it done on schedule, but all code must be free to use / open source / whatever as I can't afford any licensing problems in the future.

then we await the reply...

dalecosp

Originally posted by weekender
oh, i'm halfway through a java app for uni and i feel a prank forming in my mind

so here it is. I email php nobber and say i've heard he is a programmer and i need a simple php site scripting. I will pay over the odds to get it done on schedule, but all code must be free to use / open source / whatever as I can't afford any licensing problems in the future.

then we await the reply...

and post it on slashdot? </evil grin>

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Y'know the thing I found really funny is that it was posted to a VMS ng.....

Weedpacket

Originally posted by dalecosp
Y'know the thing I found really funny is that it was posted to a VMS ng.....

Methinks comp.os.vms isn't moderated 🙂; I just wish the laddie hadn't broken the thread with the original post or we'd have known what it was originally about.

Schwalbach

Hey,

You mentioned something about 'breaking off the thread' so thought I would post this if you missed it:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=4008031a.2618703%40news.cable.ntlworld.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fselm%3D4008031a.2618703%2540news.cable.ntlworld.com

dalecosp

Originally posted by piersk
<sweeping generalisation>
Well, the fact that he uses ntl should have given that away
</sweeping generalisation>

I posted a reply. It said that it would take about 9 hrs for it to come up on the page, so keeo an eye out...

WTG, Piersk! And a good link, too.... 🙂

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Schwalbach
Hey,

You mentioned something about 'breaking off the thread' so thought I would post this if you missed it:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=4008031a.2618703%40news.cable.ntlworld.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fselm%3D4008031a.2618703%2540news.cable.ntlworld.com

No, I didn't miss it; I was referring to
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=4006feaf.3276015%40news.cable.ntlworld.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D4006feaf.3276015%2540news.cable.ntlworld.com

Moonglobe

LMAO! :p when will some people get with it... and good reply piers!

piersk

Ok, just in case anyone wants a link to my reply, take a look here

Weedpacket

You know, I was just refreshing my memory of what the PHP license actually says, and I noticed that - unlike the GPL - it doesn't require you to make the source code to it or derived products available. Kind of refreshing, that. Ditto for Zend itself, which is no doubt why that particular decision was made (Zend Studio is closed source).

laserlight

The PHP license is derived from the (modified) BSD license, I suppose.
At least it runs on similiar lines.

piersk

So does that mean that, technically, PHP is not open source.

However, this still doesn't affect what the guy on the newsgroup was saying, since he has the wrong end of the stick about what open source actually means.