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Tempest in a Mambo Teacup

19-Sep-2004

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Open Source, Joomla!

Open-source CMS and portal project, Mambo, has been expanding fairly rapidly of late. Now the founder of a commercial CMS that targets media companies is accusing one of his contract developers of illegally folding a proprietary extension back into the main Mambo project. Brian Connolly, an Ogilvy refugee, built a commercial CMS offering based in part on Mambo, under the aegis of his Chicago, USA-based company, Furthermore Incorporated. The module in question, some sort of article-ordering utility, was developed under contract for Furthermore by a Swedish engineer active in the Mambo community. Given the modest scope of the functionality in question, Furthermore's assertion that Mambo users are liable for civil and criminal penalties seems quite extreme and almost smacks of SCO-like greenmail. But it illustrates some of the ongoing potential for conflict when commercial developers use open-source code -- and vice versa...
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