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  • Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 12:29 PM

    PHP Foundation’s budget is about 700k a year. It’s used on something like 40 million websites. Almost no company who uses it contributes anything and many people work on it for free.

    The latest trend is cybersecurity and AI vendors have realised they can vampire off its security for publicity (money).

    Perhaps the world would be a better place if those orgs who rely on it just contributed sponsorship to the foundation, and vendors didn’t monetise vulnerabilities for themselves.

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  • Markus StollMarkusStoll@sueden.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 12:55 PM

    @GossiTheDog
    Sure, but they knew about this since 2024!
    So the main issue still is bad judgment on security here, as they invested their time and money obviously on other issues since then…

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  • Markus StollMarkusStoll@sueden.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 1:03 PM

    @GossiTheDog
    I strongly doubt that there was a bigger issue than this, as this makes it very clear to everyone that you should avoid using PHP.
    Still I concur, that whoever uses it, should contribute to this…

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