I change the name from Tian to Nimf

Thu, Feb 24 2022 08:18:10 KST

Hello.
I am a Nimf developer.

While developing nimf in the past, there have been several friction with the open source community. So, from September 2019, I started to develop continuously in a closed-source way. I changed the name and released Tian around April 2020.

The reasons for the name change at that time are as follows.

As I quit the open-source nimf project and develop nimf in a closed-source way, I was worried that if I use the same name, people will flock to my closed-source nimf, and the open-source nimf project will collapse. Because of these concerns and potential friction with the open source community I left the open source nimf as it is and renamed it to tian to develop it in a closed source way.

The reason for changing the name from tian to nimf this time is as follows.

  1. Tian is originally Nimf.

  2. While I continued to develop under the name tian for many years, looking at the open source nimf project, there has been little development progress over the years. Even if I use the name nimf, I do not think it will have any adverse effect on the open source nimf project.

  3. There have been requests to add Sebeolsik layout to tian, but I do not have time to implement Sebeolsik layout due to circumstances. It seems rude to make users wait for years, so on February 20, 2022, I applied the latest source code of tian to nimf and released it as closed source way, but I can’t afford to manage both nimf source code and tian source code at the same time.

  4. I really like the name nimf as an input method, so I’m attached to it. The name Nimf stands for Nimf input method framework. At the end of 2015, the name was created after thinking about a month.

I am the person who named Nimf, the author of Nimf and the copyright holder. I have already applied the name nimf to the domain and opened the nimfsoft.com domain in February 2019. In the process of updating the website, two-step verification failed in January 2022, so in February of the same year, I purchased an additional nimfsoft.art domain and am using it. I’d like to continue using that name for the closed-source version of the input method as well.
So again I change the name from tian to nimf .

For reference, the closed-source nimf (tian) I am making does not contain any contributed code.

Thank you.