{OT} SeaMonkey vs. Mozilla Suite (NOT Firefox/Thunderbird)

[*Prot3anThr3ad*]

where does Mozilla Suite leave off and where does SeaMonkey start?
what are the major differences? any preferences?

 

[Al Smith]

where does Mozilla Suite leave off and where does SeaMonkey start?

what are the major differences? any preferences?

No real differences. Seamonkey has problems with its mail and
news, which is why I still use Mozilla. I've tried several
versions of Seamonkey, and I've only noticed a few minor
differences from Mozilla. Different icons for some things.
Different arrangement of the tool bars. Small stuff.

 

[John Jay Smith]

mozilla suite is dead, seamonkey was born....

and firefox (phoenix or firebird) rose from the ashes of netscape who opened
its code to the world...

in otherwords netscape spirit still lives through firefox...

(I am ignoring netscape 8 on purpose)

 

[*Prot3anThr3ad*]

what version of mozilla suite is seamonkey based on then ?

 

[Al]

where does Mozilla Suite leave off and where does SeaMonkey start?
what are the major differences? any preferences?

This may give you some answers. http://ilias.ca/

 

[John Jay Smith]

i dont really know... all i know was that they wanted to stop developing
mozilla suite, but some started woking on something new they later called
seamonkey, using the prexisting suite as a basis

 

[*Prot3anThr3ad*]

thanks. i'm beginning to like seamonkey

This may give you some answers. http://ilias.ca/

 

[Al Smith]

i dont really know... all i know was that they wanted to stop developing

mozilla suite, but some started woking on something new they later called
seamonkey, using the prexisting suite as a basis

They were forced to change the name for legal reasons. That's the
only reason they changed it. Seamonkey is a continuation of Mozilla.

 

[John Jay Smith]

what are the legal reasons?

Last thing I read that they wanted to dump it because FF and TB were so
good,
that nobody really wanted to continue the development of the Moz Suite.

 

[*Prot3anThr3ad*]

http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page

what are the legal reasons?

Last thing I read that they wanted to dump it because FF and TB were so
good,
that nobody really wanted to continue the development of the Moz Suite.

 

[john jay smith]

I have read this in the past... where does it say about legal matters. It
just says as i said before they just decided to stop mozilla suite.

 

[John Jay Smith]

Yes of course, in that contex you are correct.. since it was a new product
developed by other people it had to have a different name... this is of
course what I was saying..
nothing different.

I have read this in the past... where does it say about legal matters. It
just says as i said before they just decided to stop mozilla suite.

Maybe this has something to do with it:

http://lwn.net/Articles/127049/

What's next, it seems, is that the Mozilla suite gets a new name (almost
certainly "SeaMonkey," its longstanding name within the Mozilla Project)
and is developed and maintained by a group of volunteers. That group is
already organizing itself, and has posted a plan of sorts on the SeaMonkey
home page. The first priority will be to get a real 1.8 release out, but
the developers are already looking beyond that milestone. A
commonly-mentioned longer-term goal is moving over to XULRunner; porting
back some of the better Firefox and Thunderbird features is also on the
list.

The Mozilla Foundation claims to support this course of action. So
SeaMonkey will be able to use the Mozilla support infrastructure - CVS,
BugZilla, etc. It also appears that it will be able to use the SeaMonkey
name, though it appears that there may be a significant debate within the
new project about naming before this is all over. The Mozilla Foundation's
primary concern, it seems, is that the SeaMonkey releases cannot appear to
be an official Mozilla product.

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I imagine that if it was called the Mozilla Suite, it might be assumed to
be an official Mozilla product.

 

[John Jay Smith]

If I decide to make a new browser based on the open source code, wouldnt I
have to change the name? This is logical.... I did say that Mozilla suite
was dead and seamonkey was new...

its a new thing even though it may look similar.. it may change course in
the future.. we dont know.

 

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If I decide to make a new browser based on the open source code,
wouldnt I have to change the name?

Not if the trademark holder wanted you to use the old name.

This is logical....

It is, but you seemed to be implying that it wasn't a legal matter.

its a new thing even though it may look similar.. it may change
course in the future.. we dont know.

They intend to keep the look and feel of the old suite as much as
possible as they restructure the Seamonkey code and move toward
utilizing the backend stuff Firefox and Thunderbird use.