Thanks,
First of all I don't see any reason in re-branding existing software under a new name, as the end-user will have difficulties in getting support from the original software's community. Again, the end-user will be very tempted to get the software from the original source. A smart move would have been to have a realy smart installer, that installs joomla & virtuemart directly from the original repositories, and adds a custom admin theme on top of those two. You would only have to look after the installer script ... no re-packing ... no re-downloading new versions ... etc ...
Also, I think the end user should be informed about the content of the software, and presented at least with a link to the GPL licence, if not the licence text ...
Second, I am not "spying" for Magento, because there is no need to do that. If I would have wanted to see what Joomla/Virtuemart offers (and I did) I would have looked into their communities/wikis/blogs. But again, those guys at Varien are pioneers in ecommerce, and play both on a end-user level, but also on a higher enterprise level.
Our company uses Magento for large-scale distributed enterprise ecommerce applications ... but that doesn't imply that it cannot be used for smallers ecommerce websites and so on ...
My initial curiosity was about your additions to the joomla/virtuemart stack, besides the rebranding and packaging into a zip file.
Cheers,
Georgel
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