What are you trying to say exactly? [LWN.net]

What are you trying to say exactly?

Posted May 16, 2003 1:16 UTC (Fri) by tpv (guest, #11248)
In reply to: What are you trying to say exactly? by gerv
Parent article: Christopher Blizzard of mozilla.org Speaks on the Firebird Naming Conflict (MozillaZine)

We are doing our best to accommodate their concerns and worries. However, that does not extend to delaying the release of the Mozilla Firebird Browser 0.6 another two months while we run another name through the lawyers who cleared the current one.
That sounds to me to be a polite way of saying: "We made a mistake but we want other people to carry the cost of the mistake, because it would be too hard for us to fix it ourselves".
If Mozilla stands by their decision to market the browser under the "Firebird" name (and the annoucement was marketing) then it is a very sad indictment on the organisation.
If, on the other hand, Mozilla concedes that the decision was a mistake, then have the guts to pay the price yourselves. Don't expect other to deal with your mistakes.

Given the history of delays in the mozilla project, it seems strange to care about a 2 month delay now.

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