[ale] Mozilla Firebird is pretty cool

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Mon Apr 28 16:02:17 EDT 2003


On Monday 28 April 2003 03:51 pm, Thomas Holmquist wrote:
> 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....

Yeah, that was uncool.  Did you read the interview with the project leader 
I linked to?  I though she did a rather complete job of apologizing and 
explaining how it happened.  But it did happen.

Michael

> 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.
> >>
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