Melody: The Other Movable Type
Feb 11, 2010, 06:03 (0 Talkback[s])
[ Thanks to Ramsai
for this link. ]
"If there's one golden rule of open source, it's this:
Major projects can and will be forked. Multiple versions of just
about every open source app of repute have been spun off from the
original.
"These splits happen for reasons that are more often political
than technical. Look at the clamor building around MySQL, where
people concerned about the future of the project under Oracle's
stewardship want its code copied out into another, separately
managed project that won't (as they see it) end up as a corporate
lapdog.
"The blogging system Movable Type, now in its fifth major
revision, is also undergoing a code schism of sorts. A number of
Movable Type developers and contributors became frustrated with
what they felt was an emphasis by MT's corporate owners on the
wrong features, as well as a lack of transparency in the
development process for the product. Rather than attack Six Apart
(Movable Type's parent company) directly, they chose instead to do
an end run—to take the now open-source code base for Movable
Type and create a new product from it: Melody."
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