Another name for "apathetic" that tells the true story [LWN.net]

Another name for "apathetic" that tells the true story

Posted May 18, 2003 13:13 UTC (Sun) by zangdesign (guest, #11298)
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)

Mr. Walther,

From your comments, it sounds like you stepped into this mess biased against Mozilla,
which makes you a piss-poor mediator, in my opinion.

i fail to see how Mozilla was at fault here, and no one has yet satisfactorily explained how
the two products could possible be confused, even with the same name, since they have
non-intersecting target audiences.

Mozilla should have told the Firebird team to piss off, or better yet, just ignored them.
Notably, IBPhoenix didn't raise a stick over the browser of a remarkable similar name (i.e.,
Phoenix). Why is that? Not enough publicity?

This whole incident reads as a pathetic attempt by the Firebird organization to scam some
free press by inventing a incident and then attempting to capitalize on it by manipulating
the truth.

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