[ale] Mozilla Firebird is pretty cool

[Thomas Holmquist]

One thing I did'nt like was the way the firebird DB crowd handled the 
situation. They Spammed the Mozilla authors, and fourms. and then they 
want the mozilla crowd to respect them....

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>The naming mess is pretty ugly. The Phoenix database is pretty nice. I
>have a test bed for it in the lab. 
>
>The current binary release is still called Phoenix. As long as the new
>stuff is called Mozilla Firebird, it should eliminate the very rude
>trouncing on the Firebird database project. If Mozilla would link back
>to the database crowd that would go a long way towards soothing some
>singed feathers.
>
>On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 11:50, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>  
>
>>On Sunday 27 April 2003 05:16 pm, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>According to the Mozilla project, Firebird and Thunderbird are just
>>>codenames, and they will become "Mozilla Browser" and "Mozilla Mail"
>>>respectively after the 1.4 release.
>>>      
>>>
>>That's good, because I won't use it under the name Firebird.  I stand with 
>>the Firebird database people in opposing Mozilla's appropriation of that 
>>name.  But when/if it get's renamed I will be happy to use it.
>>
>>Michael
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