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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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How the hell is this flamebait? There are many reasons why our company is apprehensive about moving to an open source architecture and this is one of them.
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Disclaimer: I'm not involved with Mambo in any way, but I have dealt with similar issues before.
Indeed. The problem here is that Mambo was a very mature community, and large communities eventually start having problems that involve legal and other matters. You need a foundation to handle such things. All the people complaining that things should have just stayed the same simply do not understand the issues beyond their own nose.
Lots of people are angry that they were't "consulted" or that the community didn't "vote". This ignores the fact that there is no legal way to take a vote from the community (that's one of the problems a foundation solves). They are also complaining that Miro picked the board, rather than having the community "vote" on it (see previous point).
The problem is that when you form a foundation, you need to appoint a board to oversee the intial creation and running of the foundation. Since there are no members to legally vote on the board before the foundation exists, they MUST be appointed. After they are appointed, and you have a means to join the foundation and be a member, you can hold a new election to put people in that the community HAS voted on. This also seems to have been lost on the majority of "knee jerk" responses.
All in all, this very reaction illustrates the very NEED for a legal governing body over the project, yet the core devs want to go off and create yet another lawless community that will (mark my words) eventually have this EXACT SAME PROBLEM once again down the line.
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Howdy, Well, it's quite rightly good to see that ya'll are takin' an interest in our humble community, and the mutiny that lily livered Peter Lamont has sprung on us...
I've been doin' my bit to provide coverage of this debacle since the shi... sugar hit the fan on my blog site - Mambo Foundation discussion with the Lone Mamber. http://lonemamber.blogspot.com/
If you're after a lowdown on what's happened so far, pop on over 'cos I've been coverin' this thang as it happens.
Thankye kindly for your support of the Mambo core dev team and the community,
The Lone Mamber