Seamonkey

I'm really confused by Seamonkey, but then the whole Mozilla thing makes my head hurt anyway.

At the Seamonkey project page, they say:

 The SeaMonkey project is a
 community effort to deliver
 production-quality releases of
 code derived from the application
 formerly known as "Mozilla
 Application Suite"
 
 

Hmmm. "formerly known" ? Looks to me like it's still known as the Mozilla Application Suite. But other pages within Mozilla seemed to have started picking up on the Seamonkey name.

Well, regardless of that, what's the point of this stuff anyway? Who uses it? Who cares? Firefox is the bee's knees, right?

Maybe so. But apparently some of the developers aren't happy with Firefox.

It's going to be a crying shame if Firefox is abandoned. Whether you call it Mozilla or Seamonkey, the monolithic Mozilla never caught on with the public, while Firefox definitely did. Whatever the reason for that, it's unimportant, and what IS important is that having a confusing and overlapping product line is always stupid. You can't prevent forking with open source, but the Mozilla Foundation doesn't have to contribute to the confusion: they should keep one product (Firefox) and if other folks want to go do Seamonkey, fine, but do it somewhere else. Maybe Seamonkey will surpass Firefox, maybe not, but keeping it all under one roof just confuses and annoys.

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