I recently made a post on Raven’s site about new CMS from Francisco Burzi ( FB ) called Smeego.
You can read the post here: http://ravenphpscripts.com/postxf15828-0-0.html Follow up at http://ravenphpscripts.com/postp121846.html#121846
For those that don’t know FB killed created PHPNuke. He recently sold it to some people who seem to be doing just as badly with it as he did, but anyways. FB closed the Smeego project after only a few months because of “In these months I received, as usual, lots of critics, attacks, bad comments, etc… it was on this way for about 7 years, and I must say that finally I’m tired of all this. I’ll not tolerate insults and destructive criticism anymore”
Really seriously what did you expect FB? Lets review. You ignored your community. Closed yourself off from anyone that would support you. Didn’t support your product. Improperly used the GPL license. Didn’t patch or repair your code. Left serious security flaws in version after version. Stole from other developers. Never really improved important current features but keep adding unneeded stuff. Let the project become stale. I could keep going but that’s the gist of it.
So after all that you expected a new project, which sounds like an STD you would get from a hooker, which appears to have the same issues all over again, would be well received by a community that for the most part hates you? People would cheer and dance? Give me a break.
He should get some credit for starting the project and bring it to the a certain level. But then should be blamed for killing it and making it the laughing stalk of the CMS and open source community.
What I really feel bad for is those people that drank the Smeego koolaid. They started sites based around the project and hung on him like a king. People like the person that runs axew3.com. You have to feel bad for these people when he took the project offline, or even starting to follow him in the first place with the way he handled Nuke. I guess they have learned a valuable life lesson.
