[ale] Mozilla Firebird is pretty cool

[James P. Kinney III]

When I read the interview,my understanding was that the Firebird
principles tried to contact Mozilla VIPs to sort out the problem. One
Mozilla made it clear that "they had made their decision", Firebird
resorted to street protests. 

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 16:02, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> 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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