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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:26:54 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Things move slowly in the real world ;)
From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>wrote:

> > I'm lead to believe that the date was chosen simply because they do
> consider
> > the situation a bit of a joke ...
>
> Speaking as a current and long-time customer of 1and1 hosting, I do
> believe that their business situation is a bit of a joke. I know this
> is not a list to talk about various hosting providers, but I'll just
> say I won't be doing business with them for much longer.  This is just
> another point of feedback I can give to them when I do change service.
> Incorrectly reporting your service offering regardless of what type of
> business you run is a really poor decision.
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I think we should do what Microsoft does with Windows and just pull version
names out of a hat.  We could call 5.5 "PHP XP" and 5.6 "PHP Vista".  A
separate branch with slightly more features could be called "PHP Vista
Ultimate" and hosting providers could use a custom-branded one called "PHP
Vista Ultimate for Workgroups."  We could release 6.0 right now with tons
of bugs and call it "PHP Derp," then a few months later put out 6.1 as "PHP
7."  The goal should be to confuse the hell out of our users as much as
possible.  Step 1:  Confuse users. Step 3:  Profit.

Seriously, though, 1and1 is a joke.  That's not exactly breaking news.  If
it really bugs us that much, we could always put up a statement on the
website rebuking their misrepresentation of our version numbering and leak
it to a few tech blogs.  Otherwise, it's probably best to just laugh it off
and move on.

--Kris

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