Back in the day when I was a newbie to Mambo, all of a sudden there was this squirming, wriggling, crying bundle that was the baby Joomla being born. At the time I wasn't new to CMS but was looking for something better, much better (or more user friendly 
) than the CMS systems I had tried.
Mambo was going to be it, I was just about to commit when the child Joomla came along, spawned from the loins of Mambo. It wasn't an easy birth. A lot of people welcomed it into the world saying that it's parents were bad parents, but still quite a few people said it was an unwanted child and the parents indeed were worthy. Both sides of the family were upset, angry with each other and the stench of acrimony filled the air.
But still a lot of people said that Joomla wasn't necessary and that the reasons the majority of the Mambo Dev team had split from Mambo were unfounded, they were totally wrong to leave. And, it was suggested that the proof of that lay with the fact that a significant minority of the Mambo Dev team had remained with Mambo and had kept faith with it.
Wind the clock forward from then to now, and the exact same thing has happened, it seems to me;
MiaCMS has been forked from Mambo; more info here http://miacms.org/
I see the same things being said to justify the fork; citing "differences" with the Mambo Foundation. If it happens once you can easily say the team making the fork are wrong. For it to happen twice... well, you make your mind up.
Mambo is dead, long live mambo - and its name is MIAcms
Best of luck to the MIA team.
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Projects fork all the time, and there is at least a dozen forks of Mambo and Joomla floating around.
They still have a strong team remaining at Mambo, but the setup of the foundation makes it difficult for some people to operate in which was the case here.
That said however, I am keen to see where Mia will go and looking forward to working with the Mia team again.
One of the Mia developers was an early Ninja Developer.
What is better?
Joomla has 2 versions by know.
1.0.x and 1.5.x
The similarities is that both Mia and Joomla have the same parent.
So you could say that Joomla 1.0 and Mia is very similar, but 1.5 is more its own CMS that differs very much from both Mambo, Mia and its predecessor.
The better one of Joomla and Mia is at this date Joomla.
There are several reasons behind that.
The big ones are:
1. Joomla is very mature by know, and have the largest amount of templates and extensions avaliable for any open source CMS.
2. Joomla has the largest user base. And that means better support and faster bugfixing.
3. Joomla is avaliable in one-click install scripts like fantastico, which is avaliable on most hosts. Mia isn't, yet.
But it was the same story with joomla in the beginning s with Mia. And today Joomla is larger than Mambo in many ways. The same thing can happen with Mia.
Cheers,
Stian
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