On Wednesday 16 April 2003 4:17 pm, Matt wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 06:50, Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
On Wednesday 16 April 2003 04:06, Paul Reeves wrote:
I apologise if this is slightly off-topic, but it is of relevance to the open source community.
Mozilla have decided to steal the Firebird name for their Phoenix browser.
How could you possibly confuse 1) I store my data in Firebird. with 2) I use Firebird to surf the 'net.
My second initial reaction is that I will also give preference to motherboards that have AMI BIOS on them in the future. Or Linux BIOS?
Also, why not settle this with a link on both your websites? I have seen sites where they say they have nothing to do with this project or site and then provide a link. This may in effect create some more interest in your project.
Just a thought,
Matt
I go along with this, everybody really has something to gain from both projects and winning fights got Microsoft where they are today [ie all of us keen on open source]. So, Paul, you do have right on your side. But Matt's solution will benefit both parties. Probably both parties should consider us, the dear users and add some distinguishing tokens to the firebird name, to help us in discussion as the respective products come into general circulation. I can't help thinking that the firebird phoenix idea is an on going theme in software dev! I'm copying this to mozilla, and I am hoping that both parties can use their best endeavours to come to a solution in the best interests of the users. regards Vince Littler