Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox
Posted Feb 9, 2004 18:41 UTC (Mon) by
KaiRo (subscriber, #1987)
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Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox by sphealey
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Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox
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
(being no official of mozilla.org in any way, only a small contributor and leading the German l10n project of the Mozilla)
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