Re: The Inquirer

From: Winfried Bergmann (dummy_at_empuron.com)
Date: 01/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:55:49 +0100

"peter.watkinson1@ ntlworld.com (Peter Watkinson)" <nospam> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:4008031a.2618703@news.cable.ntlworld.com...
> Maybe I should make it simpler
>
> write a web page in ASP (Active Server Pages) put it on a Microsoft OS
> web server using IIS (Internet Information Server) 4/5 or whatever.
>
> Now go to the url with whatever web browser your using. Now use view
> source. You can see the HTML but can you see the embedded ASP
> (Vbscript, javascript, perlscript or whatever) No. This is closed
> source. Likewise the Microsoft Operating system, web server etc are
> closed source.
>
> Now accordingly why if PHP is "Open Source" why can't I view the Web
> page source code with my web browser - not even Mozilla on what ever
> flavour OS you like. Still doesn't sound very open source to me.
>
> It's tough enough being a programmer at the moment anyway I'd much
> rather get paid for just copying someone elses code ;-)

I'm sorry, but english is not my native language, so maybe I didn't
understand your statement:
Do you claim PHP not being open source because you can't see the PHP source
code, when visiting a PHP generated web site?

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