Whilst I'm sure Simon aka Wishcraft a developer of XOOPS means no harm he recently published an E-mail which I had sent him in private, within these mails there is nothing which I haven't and wouldn't say publicly however because of the nature of these e-mails I feel its probably appropriate I also disclose them here.

One thing I would like to make clear though is that these e-mails were sent from me personally and not from ImpressCMS, Currently I hold no "Official" position in ImpressCMS due to handling matters within my personal life and as such took a leave of absence. However I do of course keep my eye on the project from time to time to keep up with current affairs.

It's important I make this distinction clear, that the mail was sent from me personally and not ImpressCMS.

I note from Simons post on XOOPS he has chosen not to publish his own e-mail response nor my follow up and because my follow up references his response I have decided not to post that content at this time as it really is for Simon to decide whether he wants his personal e-mails made public or not.

Whilst its come as no surprise, its still another nail in that proverbial coffin for XOOPS, even more sad news which can only be accredited to the "new" management and their dictatorship style. Current XOOPS developers are angry at the current dictator style being used to manage a once great open source project.

After forcing out the previous management, then censoring posts and articles to suit their own agenda whilst damaging others credibility on the internet, they have managed to keep the appearance that XOOPS is thriving and alive with a strong development path.

On april 21st 2010 the Court of Zwolle-Lelystad in The Nether­lands ruled in the civil law­suit that US-based Xoops Foun­da­tion LLC started against Sticht­ing XOOPS (Dutch for XOOPS Foun­da­tion) and Herko Coomans, chair­man of Sticht­ing XOOPS and for­merly an active vol­un­teer in the inter­na­tional XOOPS com­mu­nity and the XOOPS.org web­site. In its rul­ing, the Court dis­missed all claims of ille­gal activ­ity of Sticht­ing XOOPS and Herko Coomans as unproven by Xoops Foun­da­tion LLC, and sen­tenced Xoops Foun­da­tion LLC to pay due dam­ages to Herko Coomans and Sticht­ing XOOPS.

Original post: http://www.herkocoomans.net/2010/05/xoops-foundation-llc-loses-its-civil-lawsuit-against-stichting-xoops-and-herko-coomans/

Well XOOPS has most certainly had a rough ride over the years but never in its history has its users been lied to so much as it has since the departure of some key players just a few years ago.

They persecuted someone who's intentions were to raise the profile of XOOPS to give it a better foundation and promote the project which he did successfully.

According to Mamba of XOOPS, the original founder of XOOPS will be making a come back in some form and very soon too.

I'm sure this will be good news to many people out there, and will give some inspirational hope to those who've witnessed the recent history of XOOPS.