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

Re:How about Bennu?

[Buck2]

WRT your sig:

Oh, yeah .... has it ever rained on you when digging out a corpse?

Not so funny then, eh?

No, I thought not.

Keep your witty references to yourself and let us corpse-diggers deal on our own terms. We don't need you reminding us how crappy our jobs are when logging onto the interweb.

Too late

[Vampyre_Dark]

It's too late guys, I emailed Microsoft about this matter this morning and Bill went down there in person this afternoon. After allot of hair pulling and name calling, Microsoft now owns it. They have renamed it Mircosoft Dead Bird (The name of a biker in Whistler,BC who frequents the Longhorn Lounge). It's already been severly broken and it's being included in the next windows service pack to make Internet explorer look that much better.

Re:Shock and Awe?

[netsharc]

Bin Laden should come with a new video clip (hey his videos probably get more airtime than some clips in MTV), and say September 11 was his "Shock and Awe" move. (Although is he really behind it, or is that just the US propaganda?) I bet that would stop anybody else from using it.