[drupal-docs] Drupal vs Mambo

[Dries Buytaert]

On 30 Jul 2005, at 07:42, Charlie Lowe wrote:
> "Drupal is an open source content management system built around  
> social software and community management principles. It has a  
> flexibile, modular approach to features and functionality, allowing  
> users to build everything from a simple weblog to traditional  
> corporate websites, to large multi-user systems that include social  
> networking tools."
>
> I added "open source" (for obvious reasons) and "simple weblog"  
> because it's good to make it clear that it can be used for more  
> just than the needs of a large organization or community. The  
> individual user/site owner with small purposes needs to be pitched  
> here, too.

This explanation makes me wonder what 'social software and community  
management principles' are and what it means to be build around  
these.  I (mistakenly) expected the second sentence to explain this.   
I very much like the second sentence but I think the first sentence  
is somewhat puzzling.

Small nit: Drupal is "free software".  Free software has different  
values than open source software, and for some, this matters a whole  
lot.  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for- 
freedom.html.  Saying Drupal is 'free software' is more accurate (but  
not necessarily better to get the point across).

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