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The Mozilla Firebird browserThe Mozilla Firebird browserPosted Apr 17, 2003 15:13 UTC (Thu) by mguenther (guest, #5609)In reply to: The Mozilla Firebird browser by nan Parent article: Will the real Firebird please stand up?
There are five Free Source projects with the Firebird name. The Firebird database was not the first one to use the name. If nothing else these news have brought attention to the FirebirdSQL Foundation and its projects. Calling my new micro-brewery product "Coca-cola Beer" will undoubtedly bring attention to the original Coca-cola, but that does not give me any ethical or legal grounds to do so. The Mozilla developers would be up in arms if Microsoft renamed .NET to Mozilla, despite the possible publicity, so I find the behaviour of the Moz dev team in this instance very hypocritical. Regardless of whether they can legally get away with calling it Firebird (or Mozilla Firebird), it is rude to the existing project(s), especially when avoiding a conflict requires almost no effort on their part. The only reason I can see for continuing with this course of action is laziness or hubris, neither of which are desirable qualities for a community-built project. P.S.: Searching freshmeat and google for software projects named Firebird only turns up the Interbase DB, I am curious to know what the other four projects are.
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The Mozilla Firebird browser Posted Apr 17, 2003 17:04 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305) [Link] Maybe the Firebird database project should change its name to "Mozilla"?
The Mozilla Firebird browser Posted Apr 17, 2003 22:22 UTC (Thu) by nan (guest, #710) [Link] From a post by Asa in Mozillazine (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3075&message=104#104) - - - - - - - - - - As far as other distros shipping Mozilla-based products, I suspect most of them will continue to call the browser they ship "Mozilla". --Asa - - - - - - - - - - - -
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