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Suuuuuurrrrrreeeee.....

Posted May 14, 2003 18:37 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Another name for "apathetic" that tells the true story by roskegg
Parent article: Christopher Blizzard of mozilla.org Speaks on the Firebird Naming Conflict (MozillaZine)

And mozilla developers eat babies too. I dont' think getting money from them is enough. We should give them the death penalty and have their corpses burned in front of all programmers as an object lesson of what happens when you are arrogant.

When I did a firebird search I came up with a lot of references to cars and a couple of mythological references. The first I heard of the firebird database project in a LOOOOOOONNNGGGG time was that Mozilla was using firebird as a project name for mozilla browser and that there was another project with that name (2-3 days later). Now I hear about it once a week or so since then.


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Yeah baby, burn!

Posted May 14, 2003 18:54 UTC (Wed) by danny (guest, #1540) [Link]

I don't care what name they use, since the mozilla project still alive and giving the best browser for Linux!

Burn Firebird, Burn!

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Posted May 14, 2003 19:03 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

> And mozilla developers eat babies too

c'mon, he didn't accuse them of criminal negligence leading to murder, that was just an analogy. I think he explained the difference between negligence and apathy quite well.

May 2003: There are plenty of groups interested in taking our community apart. M$ would love to see us in-fighting and holding grudges, the activist movements of the 60's were famous for splitting into useless factions over small differences.

I don't like what the Mozilla guys did but they have taken it back (claiming they're not "backing down" but saying the name will only be used for development snapshots).

If you want to use your anger for something, try fighting patents in Europe or fighting for a better patent system in USA/Australia/Japan. Or write some Free documentation, or code a project, or spread the word.

Ciaran O'Riordan

Software patents!

Posted May 15, 2003 7:45 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

Very well said!

Spend time fighting software patents in Europe instead!

Suuuuuurrrrrreeeee.....

Posted May 19, 2003 19:17 UTC (Mon) by rafaelri (guest, #11325) [Link]

What the hell you do??? For sure you aren't a developer... May be u just use Word for doing school tasks...

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