The Joomla! developers have announced that Microsoft has signed the Joomla! Contributor Agreement (JCA) and has already begun contributing code
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lozz
14 years 22 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago
Hug of death!
This "agreement" is totally bad news for Joomla. It spells the end of their days as an independent entity and a rapid spiral into oblivion.
Goodbye Joomla, it was nice knowing you.
DeadSuperHero
14 years 22 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago
Worse comes to worst...
You could always get the snapshot of what they have right now, and fork it. Happened to Mambo, can easily happen again.
aboutblank
14 years 22 weeks 14 hours 16 min ago
Worse comes to worst...
Exactly, it's no big deal if Joomla is truly free. If there is any influence from Microsoft that would cause Joomla or the community to fall apart, the community who cares for Joomla can still maintain a variant of Joomla under a different name - but only if Joomla is free software.
Lanadapter
14 years 21 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago
Well
It is Licensed under the GPL.....
Ubuntu87
14 years 21 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago
By the way, I agree.
I think that one of the things that really annoy Mafiasoft is the ability for Free Software projects to get forked easily after they hijack them.
motters
14 years 21 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago
Might not be so bad
It depends upon how much code Microsoft is contributing, and whether that code is maintained over time. In one way this shows how Microsoft is losing ground to open source, and is being forced to contribute code under GPL in order to keep its platform relevant.