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Mozilla Firebird becomes FirefoxMozilla Firebird becomes FirefoxPosted Feb 9, 2004 18:32 UTC (Mon) by sphealey (guest, #1028)In reply to: Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox by KaiRo Parent article: Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox
They did not consider, however, that (legally independent, because it's a different kind of software) there was already a not small, but not too public either, open-source project named "Firebird". After seeing that this was a peoblem, though not lagally, they decided to prefix the name with "Mozilla" so that "Mozilla Firebird" would clearly be a different thing. But after a short period, they saw that coming up with a different name again (sigh) was the nicer and more friendly way to go.If you mean the word "saw" to be short for "was beaten bloodly by the Firebird and general FOSS communities, but like most people in the tech world was absolutely unable to admit to an error", then I agree with your post! sPh
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Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox Posted Feb 9, 2004 18:41 UTC (Mon) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] if they were beaten bloody, they'd better not have changed the name at all, as that's not how to do communication.If they would have been less flamed but instead the projects leaders (drivers) were contacted by Firebird database project leaders, I bet they'd even had reacted faster and more friendly. Even people in the Mozilla community who don't like the now-called Firefox browser too much felt like the Firebird databse people wanted to start a war aginst us, and probably won't think of using that product because of some stupid feelings that arise when you feel getting attacked by someone you didn't even know before. With peaceful communication instead of wars, we'd probably live more happy together now and had resolved those issues faster. Robert Kaiser
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