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...
