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"Or what about the damage that proprietary platforms like .NET (which Jeff uses if I'm not mistaken) or iOS do to the programming world by restricting progress to a single company."

PHP is used for web development. Microsoft's best alternative for web development is ASP.NET MVC which is open source.

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No, PHP is a language with some framework-like aspects. Your nitpicking is quite poor.

I'm just saying that Microsoft offers tools(languages or frameworks) for web developmet that are open source. And yes you have Mono project also.

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