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Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names
blazerw11 writes "Phoenix and Minotaur
have been officially renamed to Firebird for the browser and Thunderbird for the mail client. Interestingly, they're both named after cars I often see in my neighbors' lawns. At least these cars were pretty fast before they were put up on cinder blocks. Personally, I like the names and the browser is great. I'm writing this with one of the last Phoenix Nightlies."
So the 'Phear This!' and 'Calvin pissing on IE' skins will be forthcoming, right? =)
"You know why you do not see me styling wit my homies? Because I have no homies!!" -Mojo Jojo
In related news, Internet Explorer is being renamed "Pinto," reflecting its tendency to blow up.
Firenerd and Thundernerd? Seems kinda fitting, don't you think?
And we can call the IRC client ChunderWord, because that's basically the point of IRC chat.
(to "chunder" is to vomit)
This sig intentionally left bla... dammit!
Who's got the whiteout?
After numerous attempts on it's life by the Microsoft mafia family, Phoenix is being given a new name and identity an an undisclosed website in the hopes of protecting it.
The Evolution(tm) Mail client will be renamed "Camaro", while the Abiword is skipping the subtle but amusing titles and jumping right into it with their latest release, codenamed "WhiteTrash"
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
You people are so redneck and you don't even know it!
Why oh why did the Macs get stuck with the sawed-off station wagon anyway? :P
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Volvos are more classy than Thunderbirds and Firebirds.
Volunteer Mozilla developer, RPI Student.
Here are a couple of screenshots:
Firebird
Thunderbird
Obligatory bad "That 70's Show" reference.
Kelso:
But it's an El Camino! Thats Spanish for "The Camino!"
They should at least go for ones you can't pronounce! like all the ones from Lamborghini cars.
Like, for example, Murcielago, which Car and Driver must have spent half a page telling people "This is how to pronounce this car's name."
And then you have citeroen and peugeot, which is pervasive, but still not easy to pronounce (correctly).
I mean, after commiting half an hour on the name alone, you are too invested (time wise) in the product to ever go anywhere else. I think that's how windows grab customers - by excruciating install processes. You invest the time in the install and don't really want to see that time "wasted" by going to another platform.
we can one-up them by using up people's time at the name alone!
ahem. so, anyway.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
In another surprise sequence of events, GCC was renamed GNU Caprice Classic and Emacs was renamed Pontiac Catalina.
Apparently as part of an prior agreement, the Chevy Tahoe was immediately renamed the GNU/Chevy Tahoe.
- Eric
GNU/Beetle
The gayest vehicle on the road. It comes with a stock flower holder.
From their old radio campaign: What's the word? Thunderbird! What's the jive? Bird's alive! What's the price? Thirty twice! Ah... enjoy the savory citrus flavor
//radiotakeover.
First is was [El] Camino, now Firebird and Thunderbird? Damn. Mozilla people need to get out more. I can see my mother right now "I can't read my email in Firebird" and I'll say "Thunderbird" to which she'll respond "Whatever"
Joy.
How many people will accidently install the Firebird RDBMS thinking it is the web browser....
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Everytime Firebird/Thunderbird crashes, I'll have to report it to my insurance company instead of bugzilla? I hope a tow truck can manage applications!
Northwood... Not to mention Longhorn
... Nah.
These names are getting cruder and cruder... Pretty soon we will see the new "Largenuts" northbridge and the "Bigcock" processor to go with it.
Maybe it's just me that's getting cruder?
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Speak for yourself.
So MacGyver and the Phoenix Foundation finally staked their claim to their name, huh? I would've thought you could've settled it all for some duct tape, a pencil, three acorns and some sodium benzoate.
Yeah, story writer, but _I_ live next to a Minatour and a Phoenix. I live in Knossos and have a summer home in Heliopolis.
I guess in reality I 'live next' to two Tan Olds Cutlass Cieras, right close to the bar in the movie Fargo. Guess which city I live in!
On cinder blocks? Are you a redneck, do you live in the sticks? Where I come from both of those names refer to cars which are still running fine. Maybe the poster should pull his Nike out of his mouth and think before he types next time without trying to sound cool.
Taking over one bit at a time...
Seems that Mozilla is evolutioning to birds, like in real world evolution :-)
Get my e-mail after a captcha test in: http://tinymailt
German Software maker SAP is renaming their R/3 software to 750iL.
*rimshot*
Mozilla's Thunderbird and Firebird components will undergo a name change as these are apparently trademarked by the Ford Motor Company and Pontiac, a division of General Motors Corporation.
In response the team will rename the Mozilla-based browser and email clients in the next release. In following with their current Greek theme, the team has been throwing around the names Muse for the browser and Pegasus for Email.
Team members have a good "gut feeling" these names will not be confused with existing commercial products or trademarks.
Actually, it seems the only remaining free names are "testsicles" and "popplers".
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
Yes, it's possible that people mix a web browser with a car model.
And Mozilla itself shall be renamed "Mercury Marauder" - it is big, heavy, powerful, and not quite as expensive as the competition.
Meanwhile, rumors from Redmond indicate they have begun on a project codenamed "Ricer" - no additional data found.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Is the new company look at Netscape a mullet?
mbbac
The new "AOL for Broadband" has renamed it's browser Corvair - unsafe at any speed.
daed si luap
Dude, you don't want them looking at the article, ASA points out what an overall asshole you are at one point there...
However both features will be included in the next release of Emacs.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.