Wait, what now? Slashdot's summaries are starting to get quite childish. Microsoft is scared, really?

It couldn't even barely be possible that Microsoft wants to follow the mobile companies common practice of cross licensing almost all of their patents.

This includes one of the pioneers of mobile industry, Nokia, as well as they could stop licensing their technology and make the other companies really suffer. But the armchair generals and armchair CEO's on Slashdot think everything is outright war between technology companies. In fact it's not.

I am myself familiar with PHP but not Python. What's so good about Python and why should one choose to use it?

Let's take for example PHP's comprehensive library that is usable without any downloads and external includes. It's one of the things I love about PHP. Python seems to miss that.

Another thing I don't like about Python is the use of TABS and white space as code block separators. Really? Why??

I'm sure Python can be great language but the style and some parts of it really put me away from it. This book might be well-structured, but IMHO Python itself isn't.