Slashdot Mirror
Phoenix Project Considers A Name Change
Magpie writes "Recently Blake Ross, a developer of the Phoenix web browser, has made a post on the Mozillazine forums looking for a new name for the project.
Apparently the people over at Phoenix Technologies decided that the name interferes with their trademark since they make an 'internet access device .'" Maybe they could start with this list.
Ho-Ho/ Ho-Oo
The name for the Japanese phoenix
Come on, wouldn't that sound great? "Yeah, you Run Internet Explorer 7.2, but *I* run "Ho ho oh-point-nine".
Minizilla?
Microzilla?
Nanozilla?
Picozilla?
Personally its not God I dislike, its his fan club I cant stand (bash.org)
Mini-Mo
Personally its not God I dislike, its his fan club I cant stand (bash.org)
Tucson? Yuma? Flagstaff?
Ya know, I get sick of this crap. This is exactly why trademark laws as they currently exist are bullshit.
The Phoenix browser will not be confused with things produced by Phoenix Technologies. And the Mozilla developers certainly didn't name it Phoenix to take advantage of the wide name recognition (sarcasm here) of Phoenix Technologies.
Trademarks should only come into issue between competing products which are the exact same type of product (i.e., two different web browsers).
Another case of companies getting in the way of progress.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
... to, say, Feenyx / Feenics / Fienix or something.
Just don't start a Hukt on Feenics marketing campaign.
That might not "fly" too well, if ya know what I mean...
Have EVDO, will travel.
Mothra?
Pterodactyl (sp)? Pterry?
Ostrich?
Emuzilla?
THERE IS NO DATA. THERE IS O
Hmmm ... Mozilla is short for Mosaic Killer, right? What would Internet Explorer Killer be?
x plorilla(*)
Exiller
Exilla
Expilla
Explilla
Explolla
E
*possible Trademark infringement (ie. they may be catching on at this point)
----- rL
MacGuyver isn't using that one anymore. Damn, I am a geek.
---
When you come to a fork in the road, take it! --Yogi Berra--
I vote for "Anka".
;+)
It's just like Phoenix, only it can carry off elephants (read between the lines here).
According to the list:
Anka
Arctic mythical bird that was said to carry off elephants. It was also believed to live for 1700 years and, like the phoenix, had the ability to burn and renew itself.
Please mod this post only if you think others should/n't read this. I have enough ego^H^H^Hkarma. Thanks!
>Maybe they could start with this list.
That's actually a good suggestion. Some of those names are pretty bitchen... I especially like:
Tlanuwa
Cherokee name of a great magical hawk. According to the Natchez it's feathers were made of metal.
- Have a picture
"Also one of the oldest animals in the world, geoducks can live as long as 146 years."
Gee, we sure are learning a lot about gastropods today!
link
- Have a picture
I vote for "Anka".
I second that vote. As well as being a cool mythological bird (like a cross between a phoenix and a roc), it's got a nice phonetic equivalence with "anchor" (as in <a href=etc>).
|>
Here be Dragons
Also forget the "...zilla" because too many zillas already exist. People will be confused between Mozilla, Ghostzilla, This-zilla, That-zilla, not to mention the term "Mozilla" is included in every browser identity string. However Phoenix is the browser you want to target to the common user if you are competing against IE. So give it a fresh name.
If you are going to keep the dinosaur (mozilla) pictorial reference then at least consider something more sensible like dinosaur names in order to target this browser in a meaningful way toward non-geek users. Or even change the mascot! .. if that's allowed by the License. For those who have pre-conceived negative ideas about Mozilla browsers, this might move them over to Phoenix based completely on its features rather than association.
Over the last couple of months I have switched over to Phoenix from IE! (The exclamation mark indicates that I am very surprised because I never thought it would happen). I think this represents the first time (for myself) that another browser has been comparible enough to the broad functionality and ease-of-use of IE, such that I can finally switch over without feeling I am missing something. Mozilla/Phoenix is a great piece of work. The fast startup time and lack of UI complexity in Phoenix (compared to Nescape 7 or other Mozillas) was just the icing on the cake that I needed to finally go the Mozilla-based way. Microsoft had better get tabbed browsing soon or else I might never use IE again.
Bring this great browser into the mainstream with a unique name that people will remember.
Mozilla, mozilla,.. ..and Mozookie
(or should that be Mozuki?)
I'd have thought that would have been the unanimous first 300 suggestions, but maybe our cartoons were different in Scotland?
Stick Men