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I wouldn't have posted if I knew there was going to be a test!<br>
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On 26/07/10 03:56 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
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type="cite">Not Drupal. It was built from scratch.<br>
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PHP Nuke had very bad security among other things.<br>
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Forks sprang up everywhere. There was Post-Nuke (now Zikula), Xaraya,
and many others.<br>
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Joomla was a fork of Mambo Server.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Insurance
Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Isn't
that Drupal's story? Php-nuke was wildly successful, but there were
problems with the developer. They forked it to something else
(Joomla?) with other developers, then that became drupal? Maybe not
that exactly, but I know php-nuke was forked into something even more
succesful.
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On 26/07/10 02:31 PM, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) wrote:<br>
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On Monday, July 26, 2010 02:03:04 pm Johnny Ferguson wrote:<br>
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I guess as an example:<br>
1. Team X creates WebWidget5000, spending $4000<br>
2. Team X creates WW5000 Support Premium<br>
3. Team Y comes along and undercuts WW5000 Support Premium<br>
4. Team X is very sad<br>
5. Team Y laughs mischievously<br>
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That's called a fork, and is encouraged by OSS. If Team Y can push
updates and<br>
create a better platform, the customers win. If Team Y tries and fails
because<br>
they're total douchebags and stole code they couldn't write anyway,
then the<br>
customers win.<br>
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Obviously Team X would feel that the first scenario isn't so good, and
there's<br>
a valid argument for that, but really we see this in the physical world
with<br>
cheap knockoffs coming out of countries with lax or nonexistent
protection<br>
laws. It's much harder to sell knockoff physical items than software,
and if<br>
it's support, the chances are very good that Team Y would have a pretty
bad<br>
rep and would have difficulty selling support for a codebase they
really aren't<br>
all that familiar with, not to mention not being in sync with the real
WW5000.<br>
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I suppose whether GPL or Proprietary, the same scenario could occur, but<br>
with proprietary, Team Y would have to have some kind of magical powers.<br>
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Or a stolen codebase. Or a rogue developer from Team X, or... ?<br>
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-A.<br>
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