I agree with a lot of the posts here that Mozilla should have changed the name to something that somebody was not already using. Firebird is taken in the software sector and it is a database. Also it's quite a good database for OpenSource. I know people here swear by PostgresSQL and MySQL (amongst others) but neither could fill the functions that I required. A database with native Unicode support and an ODBC driver that handles that Unicode correctly, and it's Open Source/free. Brilliantly allowed me to develop a couple of software packages that I've been able to sell. So I could be biased in this, but why did the Mozilla/AOL people knowingly adopt the name. They should just change it to something else, it's not like they've been using the name for long. Also why is an Open Source evangelist website like Slashdot in favour of the corporate AOL over a truly useful Open Source development.
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I agree with a lot of the posts here that Mozilla should have changed the name to something that somebody was not already using. Firebird is taken in the software sector and it is a database.
Also it's quite a good database for OpenSource. I know people here swear by PostgresSQL and MySQL (amongst others) but neither could fill the functions that I required. A database with native Unicode support and an ODBC driver that handles that Unicode correctly, and it's Open Source/free. Brilliantly allowed me to develop a couple of software packages that I've been able to sell.
So I could be biased in this, but why did the Mozilla/AOL people knowingly adopt the name. They should just change it to something else, it's not like they've been using the name for long. Also why is an Open Source evangelist website like Slashdot in favour of the corporate AOL over a truly useful Open Source development.