Mambo CMS Dev Team Splits

cozimek writes "The popular Mambo CMS developer team has severed its ties with Miro Corporation, the copyright owner on the GPL'd Mambo CMS. You can read more about the renegade dev team."

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It DOES show the STRENGTH of Open Source

[Anonymous Coward]

If Mambo had been a closed source product, and the company that developed it started misbehaving (raising prices, making changes that ruin it, etc.), then the users of Mambo would be _screwed_.

With closed source, the only choices for Mambo users would be to accept the bad changes (higher prices, etc.), or give up using Mambo.

But, since Mambo is Open Source, Mambo users are _protected_.

With Open Source, when a developer starts misbehaving, anyone else has the option of forking the code, in order to ensure that the preferred direction is maintained.

So everyone should ignore the trolls and astroturfers who are calling this a weakness of Open Source. On the contrary, it is a strength. It protects users from having to suffer at the hands of a disreputable company, as, for example, Microsoft's customers have suffered.