News for 1-2-Wonder customers with Mambo databases.
The name "Mambo," plus the logo, may soon change.
If so, we'll post more here. Why would Mambo change the name and logo? It's such a popular project as-is.
Well, when you think of Mambo, you may think about a group of core developers at the top, making most of the strategy decisions and code changes...trickling down, creating a great GPL'd project. A company Miro International actually owns the copyright to Mambo. Miro recently created Mambo Foundation to the dismay of the core developer team. So dismaying (due to financing issues) is Mambo Foundation to the core developers they recently announced collectively they are no longer working with Miro International.
This is called a fork. Forks are sometimes great and sometimes bad. This is not bad. A bad fork is when the project gets compromised. Here - the entire core developers team - is moving. The product won't change. The Mambo core devs have been great so people sharing code will be loyal. So there's no impact to anybody with a Mambo database. Down the road due to copyright legal issues they'll just probably need to create a new name and logo for the "new" Mambo. They're not even calling it a "fork" and rather "rebranding."
The core devs obviously won't be on MamboServer anymore and if you see Mambo written as $Mambo it's because funding (self-funding vs. other) was the central issue.
Again, you don't need to update your website. Just figured people with Mambo should know this important news. More info is
here.
August 21st, 2005, 08:49 PM
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