Novo was a new coin created by Rijk to raise more funds for development. In hindsight if they tried lowering the max supply and rewards for Gulden first, it's all that would of been needed to keep development funded. The problem for the main developer Malcolm, is he has to support 2 blockchains and not 1, which will slow development for Gulden.

Novo had it's name changed to florin and the one positive is that the supply is so little that it doesn't affect Gulden in a financial way because there is not much to buy. It's more of a time sink.