Mambo in trouble
It seems like the Mambo Foundation does not own the Mambo Trademarks after all. Mambo Communities Pty Ltd, the original owner of the Mambo forums, help site, development forge, the domain names and the new Mambo Developer Network, has been sold off by Peter Lamont to Ansearch Ltd, an Australian search engine and online media company. This was four months after Miro International Pty Ltd announced that it had transferred the intellectual property it held in Mambo to the Mambo Foundation. Subsequently, member of the Mambo Foundation Board, Martin Brampton, resigned from his position with immediate effect due to what “having become aware that the Board is acting unlawfully”.
Related stories and documents:
- Ansearch aquires Mambo (iTWire)
- Mambo lead developer quits (iTWire)
- CMS War! - Traffic ranking for the major CMS’
- PDF: Ansearch’s press release, April 4th
- PDF: Martin Bramptons press release at his withdrawal, April 29th
- Unruhe in der Mambo-Community (Heise Online - in german)
on May 9th, 2006 at kl. 11.59
Doesn’t surprice me at all. The whole foundation affair was pretty fishy.
on May 19th, 2006 at kl. 3.08
There is more information about this debacle on the Mambo Guru website (set up by former members of the Mambo core and community).
http://forum.mamboguru.com/