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Story: JBoss gets Nuked

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Good Nuke ... Bad Nuke

I contributed modules such as MetaMaker, and HostScanner to PHP Nuke, but have since stopped. The problem with PHP Nuke is that it isn't realy open source in the usual sense. You have to pay to use it commercially, and there are a lot of other restrictions, so most people over 20 won;t take it seriously as an open source framework. The end result of the restrictions is that not a lot of mature core developers bother to inspect the code. This makes the framework really vulnerable to hackers. There have been plenty of patches to address this, but recent releases have been downright crippling to servers to the point that some ISPs ban PHP Nuke.

I can see why the JBoss guys went to roll their own. They simply got frustrated with a good thing that could be so much better.

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