CNET News: IBM Bemoans Joomla-Mambo Split

“It’s unfortunate for the Mambo open-source publishing software
project and for its customers that its developers had to decamp
with their source code to start the Joomla project, according to a
high-ranking IBM software executive.

“‘It does look like the company that was shepherding this along
got a little bit off track on their interests vs. the open-source
community’s interests,’ said Rod Smith, vice president of emerging
Internet technology for IBM’s Software Group. ‘That’s a bad thing,’
because Mambo had a lot of traction, and the ‘fork’ undermines
that, he said…”

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