NYCPHP Meetup

[Barrie North]

This has to have been the most insightful and measured discussion of the
consequences of the current velocity of the Joomla project's policies.

I wish had it have been more public...

Barrie North
www.joomlashack.com
www.simplweb.com/joomla
www.compassdesigns.net

~Please note, unless we agree otherwise, the contents of this email are
confidential~


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Joomla Training
> <info at joomlatraining.com> wrote:
> > The flip side is that Drupal has no commercial market to speak of - all
> the
> > money is in custom work.
>
> That's the money-quote, as that is exactly where Joomla has been
> headed dating back to the determination that extensions were
> derivatives, and therefore subject to the GPL. That was a game-changer
> for the community, for sure.
>
> Not a complaint - no need to rehash old arguments - but this is what
> the landscape looks like when there are no products, only services.
>
> Each direction has their own benefits and disadvantages. I always
> thought the commercial aspect produced good ol' fashioned competition
> (and therefore choice for the consumer); however a lack of cooperation
> makes it difficult for folks to find what they need, and distributes
> resources doing duplicate effort for the most part. Drupal folks don't
> have many competing efforts, so your path is relatively clear - and
> all resources for a given topic are working cooperatively towards a
> common goal.
>
> -- Mitch
> _______________________________________________
> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List
> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla
>
> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online
> http://www.nyphpcon.com
>
> Show Your Participation in New York PHP
> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20091027/a05d827d/attachment.html>