if you are mambo this cms supporter, you should read about this OpenSourceMatters , the core develop team split with the copyright owner Miro Corporation, because of the Mambo Foundation. The developer believe that the Mambo Foundation is been use by Miro Corporation to control the mambo without the voice from developer or even community ..
I wonder will this actually affect this popular cms .. which recently just grab the Best Open Source Solution
Tags: mambo, Open As In Source
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Hey Knight,
You quite the Mambo pro rite?
Point me to a place where I can learn about Mambo templating. Thanks.
read about it but don’t quite understand what was going on. The developer want to open new house?
danny : no la… i dun really like mambo, i support it cos its a open source cms .. hehe compare to drupal i more support drupal, but this site maybe can help u http://www.mambosolutions.com/dw_tutorial/
lcf : i think its more like the Corporation build the foundation to control the mambo, so future the user and developer got no power to decide whats the direction, its the foundation decide the mambo direction
don’t worry…i think it’s gonna revert to the period before they ‘merged’ with Miro which happened right before the launch of 4.5.1.2 i think. the core team is still intact anyway.
btw, i think some ppl are more worried about the lawsuit with connelly regarding the ’stolen code’.
After long discussions with people in both the Joomla and Mambo camps, the story is this: The developers of Mambo had many disagreements with Miro. Miro legally gave control of the Mambo Copyrite to the Mambo Foundation in the hopes that this would make the dev team happy.
Different people on the Dev team had different agendas, some wanted to make money with the new Joomla product, others are hard-core opensource fans.
The CMS itself is really secondary to the third party developers who make it great. I have noticed that about 80% of the 3PD have left Mambo and gone to Joomla. Now to balance that out, it seems like the more “regulated” developers - the better code - has stayed with Mambo. This seems to be the best overal difference between the two. If you PREFER an API that you MUST OBEY - then Mambo is for you. If you prefer to get crazy with your code and don’t want anyone to get in your way - then you’re going to prefer Joomla.
The Mambo/Joomla fork was bad for everyone and there are incredible bad feelings on both sides. Mambo is being professional about it and refuses to say anything rude, Joomla side, there is no corporate environment to govern this so there are a lot of insults and such coming from some at Joomla.
In the end, both will be powerful CMS - but based on different mentalities. You pick the one that suits your style and you will be happy with it.
There seems to be a recent explosion of “For Pay” components springing up in the Joomla world. Which is ironic when that was the main reason the developers cited for LEAVING Mambo in the first place. (Both sides accuse the other of trying to make their product a “Closed Source” app)
Mambo will be more structured and API driven. You want to write code for Mambo, you follow the structure. If you are a major contributor, then your opinion will matter more.
Joomla is more “cowboy” style, without any overbearing oversight or rules. More freedom for the developers. So maybe you could say that Joomla is a younger, wilder offspring of the more stable, stuffy Mambo.
So Joomla is going to do more I think, while Mambo will proceed more slowly - but should be more of a stable platform based on planned growth.
Mambo releases should be more solid, Joomla releases should be more exciting. You pick.
I have sites using both and currently, all sites are suffering because neither CMS is fully functional at the present time (March 26, 2006). In a year, both will be back to where they were a year ago and life can continue.
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