Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] Fwd: Use of the name "Firebird" |
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Author | Robert (Jamie) Munro |
Post date | 2003-12-16T15:41:13Z |
The Mozilla foundation has a lot more money than the Firebird
foundataion. They both have similar aims (develop open source software).
Why don't we offer to change our name for a good faith donation. I
expect this money will do more good for us than getting back a name that
wasn't very good in the first place, and that will permanently be marked
in history with the stain of this whole incident. We'd also get a chance
to relaunce ourselves again with our new name, making at least some
publicity. All the people who said "I'll never use your database because
you ..." would have to reconsider, and they will rediscover us, and
maybe even convert to us from MySQL.
What do people think?
Robert Munro
foundataion. They both have similar aims (develop open source software).
Why don't we offer to change our name for a good faith donation. I
expect this money will do more good for us than getting back a name that
wasn't very good in the first place, and that will permanently be marked
in history with the stain of this whole incident. We'd also get a chance
to relaunce ourselves again with our new name, making at least some
publicity. All the people who said "I'll never use your database because
you ..." would have to reconsider, and they will rediscover us, and
maybe even convert to us from MySQL.
What do people think?
Robert Munro