On 04/29/2012 05:44 PM, MCBastos wrote: > Interviewed by CNN on 29/04/2012 21:10, Beauregard T. Shagnasty told the > world: > >> If he was the NVu guy, why did he change the name? (although I rather >> prefer "Bluegriffon" to "nVu"). > > I don't know the exact reasoning, but there are a few likely possibilities: > > 1. BlueGriffon is an entirely different program. NVu was built on the > old Mozilla Composer codebase, and depended on a (patched) old version > of Gecko. BlueGriffon was built from the ground up, to use the > most-current version of Gecko without patches. It's possible that > Glazman wanted to dissociate the new product from NVu due to those > differences. > > 2. Glazman had an sponsor for NVu -- the old Linspire Linux distro. It's > possible that Linspire and their successors, not Glazman, hold the > rights to the NVu trademark. > > 3. BlueGriffon, having no sponsor, uses a different business model -- > the so-called "freemium" system: basic package is free, add-ons are > for-pay. Since NVu was totally free, another possible reason for > changing the brand was not to carry the expectations of it being totally > free. >
Not to mention that BlueGriffon and BlueFish support HTML5 & kompozer & Nvu do not... _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
