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Mambo Changes its Name to Joomla!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rose-by-another-name dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "The popular open source content management system named Mambo has changed its name to Joomla! -- released under the GNU Public License. Some of the reasons for the name change are explained at MamboPortal.com. Joomla! is used by a very wide array of organizations and companies."

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  1. GNU Public License?! by chris_eineke · · Score: 4, Informative

    The first letter in GPL is not GNU. It's the General Public License.

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  2. Invalid markup from such people is a disgrace. by CyricZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed, it is quite disgraceful when such major web developers are unable to write valid XHTML (in this case) for their own website.

    Check if for yourself:
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .joomla.org%2F

    As of this time, seven errors are reported, plus a number of warnings.

    It's difficult to tell whether it is a lack of ability, a lack of initiative, or a lack of quality control. Perhaps it is a mixture of all three factors. Regardless, it makes their project look bad. Very bad.

    The least that one should expect from a web developer is that the developer's own website is standards-conformant. The lack of professionalism shown by this group of web developers rubs off on all open source developers, unfortunately.

    They are, however, far better than PHP-Nuke, which currently offers 96 errors[1] on their homepage.

    References:
    [1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.phpnu ke.org/

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