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Miro Replies to Mambo Allegations

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Rico! writes "Miro aka The Mambo Foundation has finally provided answers to some thorny questions and also fired back at the Rebel Developer Alliance." Here is the Slashdot story covering the original split where the developers all jumped ship.

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  1. Fork, and rename by Animats · · Score: 3, Funny
    If the developers are going to fork, they should probably rename the product. "Mambo" is too generic. Something containing "Portal" would be more appropriate.

    "Webportal" is not a registered trademark.

    1. Re:Fork, and rename by NoOneInParticular · · Score: 3, Funny
      Not sure why this scored funny, but I think it's an interesting thought for open source software. What would happen when open-source software would just start using generic names that absolutely cannot be trademarked. Given the nature of open source, having or not having a trademark is fairly irrelevant, so why not use this. I can see it now:

      Mambo renames to webportal

      firefox renamed to browser

      openoffice renamed to:

      word processor

      spread sheet

      etc.

      linux (and(!)/or BSD) renamed to 'operating system'

      This is going to be a ball!

  2. Re:A socialist-corporate trend is developing. by grahamlee · · Score: 4, Funny
    There is no such thing as a community, only a collection of individuals.

    You are Margaret Thatcher and I claim my five cartons of free school milk.