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The Sad Story of XOOPS: Governance Fail

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“The XOOPS community was dealt a bad hand last week. The Dutch
Court has rejected its suit against former project manager Herko
Coomans and allowed Coomans to keep funds totally more than
€15,000 held in a fund earmarked for the project.

“This is hardly the first open source project to come into a bad
way when early or original founders split due to disagreements.
Gentoo had all manner of drama surrounding founder Daniel Robbins
departure and attempted return. CentOS experienced issues with
control of its funds and its domain last year. There’s the split
from Mambo to Joomla, X.org from XFree86… most of which have
their roots in poor governance issues.”

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