Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage

An anonymous reader writes "As many readers will know, mozilla.org was asked to change the name for their standalone browser, Phoenix as another browser had the same name. After months of discussion, the new name was announced as Mozilla Firebird. Despite the new name being approved by AOL Legal, supporters of the FirebirdSQL database were quick to object (though the name is also used by many other people). A coincidentally named supporter of FirebirdSQL, IBPhoenix, put up a slightly immature request for their readers to participate in mass posting campaign targetting mozilla.org developers' email accounts, newsgroups and even forums at independent sites such as MozillaZine and Slashdot. FirebirdSQL's official site later reiterated this message. However, IBPhoenix have now declared this shock-and-awe stage of their campaign over, heralding it a success. Their second stage calls for a more focussed email protest at just two of mozilla.org's members: Mitchell Baker (mozilla.org's leader) and Asa Dotzler (announcer of the name change). In addition, they ask their readers to move away from 'derogatory messages' and to show more 'courtesy'. Unsurprisingly, the beleaguered admins of affected sites such as MozillaZine have welcomed this change of direction. This is getting very interesting!"

Comments

why does it matter from now on?

[lingqi]

Since Phonix / firebird / whatever it will change to will be intergrated into Moz ANYWAY, why not just call it moz.browser and moz.mail and moz.chat or something?

Heck even M$ has realized that keeping up with multiple names and multiple "product images" are silly and effort-consuming, and .NET will be named "Windows server family" or some such.

i mean, if it's a code name, fine - you use it INTERNALLY and you can call it whatever you want. Seriously though, people...

Children, children!

[Zenjive]

Play nice now. Little Johnny, time out for you! No email priviledges, go sit in the corner.