[ale] Mozilla Firebird is pretty cool

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 28 April 2003 11:58 am, James Sumners wrote:
> That is so silly. They are completely different products. The mythical
> phoenix is bird born of fire hence the rename from Phoenix to Firebird.

So you think that it would be okay for, say, apache to rename their server 
Mozilla, or Abiword and the original projects would have no grounds for 
complaint?

Firebird, the DB, is not a little, unknown project.  It is a 3 year old 
project under that name.  Like Mozilla, it is an open sourced, formerly 
proprietary and commercial, software project.  See 
http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article3097.html

> Besides, what grounds do they have? I am fairly sure Pontiac was using
> the name "Firebird" long before the database people were.

And yet Mozilla made a deal so they wouldn't get sued for infringing on the 
Gozilla trademark.  You are right that the infringement neds to be in the 
same or similar area.  So, are two software products more or less in the 
same area as a car and a software product.

> http://reactor-core.org/mozilla-position-on-firebird.html

This helps a lot.  It is good to hear that it is just a code name, not a 
production name.  Let's hope it works out.  As they say in bball "Good 
save!".

Michael

> http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/phoenix.htm
>
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:50:33 -0400
>
> "Michael D. Hirsch" <mhirsch at nubridges.com> wrote:
> > 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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