Funny, we just did create a Magento plugin for OpenMeetings.
Now we need might need to do the same for Mage+ :)

Sebastian

2012/5/12 Raju Bitter <[email protected]>

> The Magento community just forked the Magento e-commerce system under
> the new name Mage+:
> http://www.mageplus.org/
>
> Back in 2010, eBay acquired 49% of Magento, and last year they
> acquired the remaining 51%. This year the Magento CTO left the
> company, and here are some of the reasons for his decision:
> "I will answer and give much more information over the next few weeks
> as to the reasons I had to leave Magento. As for now I can say that
> (very) short term I would not be worried about the ‘open’ part of
> Magento, but as I have learned eBay and the folks at X.commerce don’t
> really understand the meaning of open and have a hard time explaining
> and defining it to them selves and to others. As such, long term, it
> would be very interesting to see if Magento will continue to stay open
> in the manor the people behind Magento and I meant it to be."
>
> http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/recently-departed-magento-cto-and-co-founder-ebay-doesnt-understand-the-meaning-of-open/
>
> I have the same feeling about Laszlo, since the founder and former CTO
> David Temkin left the company: The management in the past years has
> shown that they don't understand the meaning of open source, and how
> an open source project should be run to foster business. And Critical
> Path doesn't seem to have any connection to open source
> software/projects. Try searching the CP.net website for "open source",
> no results...
>
>


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