Disgruntled Mambo Developers Launch Joomla

[mandy]

Disgruntled Mambo developers who split from their affiliation with Miro International  launched their own version of the CMS called Joomla

news article: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5846006.html
the Joomla web site: http://www.joomla.org/

[jezebel]

The developers letter of revolt: http://opensourcematters.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=1


Hey, do you have an ego smilie?  Joomla=ego,ego,ego  :twistedevil:

[mandy]

Article detailing the events that led to the Joomla fork of Mambo:

To counter much of the misinformation around the Internet, I conducted interviews with several members of the Joomla project; the Mambo Foundation; and Miro International. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, the following rumors are false:

    * Mambo changed its name to Joomla. Although this fallacy was initially reported, the Mambo project did not change its name. The old core team forked the project into Joomla, but Mambo remains intact with a new core development team. The Mambo trademark belongs to the Mambo Foundation.
    * Miro did not honor Peter Lamont's promise to assign the Mambo copyrights and trademarks to the Mambo Foundation. The Mambo trademark and copyrights belong to the Mambo Foundation as of December 21, 2005. According to the parties involved in the transfer, it took a great deal of time and monetary expense for the paperwork to be approved.
    * Miro tried to make third-party Mambo developers pay a fee to continue developing modules and components for Mambo. According to Peter Lamont, there were never any such plans discussed or implemented. There was, however, a level of membership available in the Mambo Foundation to third-party developers who wanted to have a say in the direction of the Mambo project. Similar membership options are available in the Eclipse Foundation, which was the inspiration for the Mambo Foundation. Foundation membership is not required to develop Mambo or Mambo-related software...

full article: http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/212/1/