Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox

Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox

Posted Feb 14, 2004 12:42 UTC (Sat) by crankysysadmin (guest, #19449)
In reply to: Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox by KaiRo
Parent article: Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox

> infringement can only happen if you're in the same market segment. A movie
> and a web browser are clearly different market segments. From what the
> Mozilla Foundation was told by lawyers, even databases, browsers, and video
> viewers are 3 different market segments.

Exactly, so why did they have to jump through hoops shying away from both Phoenix and Firebird? Neither was a web browser.

I agree with the "community" argument to a certain extent, but working out disputes can be taken to extremes, and I wish that the law was laxer on forcing you to defend your trademark. Of course, I also wish brand names and marketing weren't so important to so many consumers in the first place, since they have exactly nothing to do with the quality of a product, so clearly I expect too much.

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