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Mambo Open Source CMS Lead Developer Quits

Posted by dcparris on · 6 comments
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York, UK – Mambo lead developer Martin Brampton has said that he is severing all ties with the Open Source project. His departure — which is eerily similar to the departure of an entire development team last year — comes in the wake of him finding himself unable to continue due to matters of conscience.

[That's the thing about FOSS projects - attempts to absolute control every little detail will fail. It's one of those hard lessons that you have to let go to gain. Kudos to Brampton! - dcparris]

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Comments (6)

dinotrac ·
Kind of interesting to see this article while we are debating the political correctness of Linspire. Linspire clearly leaves room for disapproval, but, at least, they are not dishonest and unethical.

By comparison, the events leading to Brampton's departure fail the smell test. For all the jokes about business ethics being an oxymoron, the people pulling the strings -- Miro, Mambo Coummities, and, in all likelihood, Ansearch -- sound more like petty thieves skulking in the night than honest businesspeople.

Too bad for the Mambo community.
jimf ·
I'm assuming that many users are dusting off the Joomla conversion scripts.
dcparris Story submitter ·
I installed Joomla on our church website because our hosting service provides it as an easy-to-install application. Talk about user-friendly! All I have to do is manage it. It's really a pretty nice system. Haven't done much with it yet, but it's up and running.
jimf ·
Don, Seems like Xoops is also going through developmental chaos. What used to be the Internet standard has really gone to pieces, so, we are currently reviewing the possibility of moving from Xoops to Joomla.
helios ·
Jimf - same here. We haven't done an upgrade for ages on Lobby4Linux, which BTW is painfully Xoops-ish at first glance. We too are looking at Joomla. Seascape.com has moved to Joomba and have both a smooth little site and it works well for the one-man IT department there.

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nicsmr ·
How ironic... The seascape.com site is down at the moment.

not great timing...

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