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. Firebird is an open source software project that started in August 2000. It develops a cross-platform database engine and associated tools. It is available for a wide number of platforms, including Linux. Many of Firebird's Linux developers use SuSE by preference. The Mozilla project's Phoenix browser has run into legal problems with the bios owners of the same name. So they had the bright idea to change the name to Firebird. Their legal advice is that it is OK and that no-one could confuse a database engine with a web-browser. The opinion of the Firebird project is rather different. We feel very strongly that confusion will exist between two major Open source software projects using the same name. The Mozilla project did not even have the courtesy to consult us before they took this action. There are two important issues here. One is moral. It doesn't seem right to me that one open source project should steal the name of another. The other issue is precedent. If they can do this, what is to stop a project being created to develop (for sake of argument) the Konqueror word-processor? Or the Galeon database engine or <pick your favourite project name>. The Firebird project's initial response to this is to encourage anyone who feels this is wrong to contact the Mozilla project leaders. They can be contacted here: mailto:drivers@mozilla.org You can see the original announcement from Mozilla here: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3075 And the Firebird Project's main web-site is here: http://www.firebirdsql.org/ Our official response is not up there yet, but will be soon. Paul -- Paul Reeves member of the Firebird Project email written (ironically) from Mozilla