Firebird Database Project Admin on Name Clash

CapnKirk writes "Ann Harrison weighs in on the "Firebird--database or browser?" name clash. Her take on things: our users feel threatened. We're responding to their concerns. AOL lawyers said it's ok, so the Mozilla team isn't interested in negotiating, but that's ok because we've gotten a lot of publicity and name recognition. And no, we don't plan on going to court." As always, a small group of users are being real asses about the whole thing. Yay.

Comments

Thank God

[Anonymous Coward]

Firebird browser = something everyone likes.

Firebird database = who the fuck even knows what this is?

Down with Firebird, long live Firebird!

FP for mrgoat

[Anonymous Coward]

nt

It's a car!

[enjo13]

Well.. it is.

Dear Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.

with much gayness,

Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.

Publicity whores

[mackstann]

There is no harm caused by a web browser using the same name as a database. There have always been things with the same name, but different markets. WHO CARES! The only reason I can see for all of this whining is publicity. As mentioned, there is no such thing as bad publicity...

Re:New Names

[platypus]

What happens when she goes to WindowsUpdate with her tricked out Mozila and it doesn't work?

Easy, the next version of the theme will detect if you are going to windowsupdate.microsoft.com (or whatever it's call), it will even have a menu item for that. And then, it will display some nilly willy phrases with nice pictures, some Active-here, some Intelli-there, some buttons to click. After you click on "Update", it will spin for a while, showing a nice (slowwwwly growing) progress bar, reboot the puter after 20 minutes and show up again with some slightly modified colors (occasionally, it should just refuse to "install", just to be more realistic).
Oh, and I forgot to mention it should show a 25 page "End User License Agreement".
Voila.

What happens when she goes to a site that says "This site requires Internet Explorer' and the site doesn't render properly?

It will also have a regexp: .* requires Internet Explorer .*, and if it triggers:

goatse.cx (but with the original URI in the location bar)

I bet this will highly raise "webdevelopers" awareness of alternative browsers.

A "small group of users" being asses?

[ByTor-2112]

Huh? What do you think Linux users are? You are a small group of users, compared to Windows users. You are just being asses by not wanting to use Windows.

Give me a break. What would you say if Microsoft released "Microsoft Linux", or "Microsoft BSD", or "Red Hat Windows"?

A small group of users picking on an even smaller group of users.

There Can Be Only One!

[Jack Comics]

... And during this whole fiasco, Bill Gates is laughing and rolling around Microsoft Headquarters in hysterical fits as the Open Source community does his dirty work for him unwittingly by fighting and dragging each other down into the mud, while Microsoft(TM) and Internet Explorer shine ever so brightly.