I've posted the following deep in the bowels of the thread from the
original announcement on mozillaZine. It will probably get lost. I'm
reposting here, so that others may use it as argument rebuttal if the
subject comes up again.

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Asa Stotzler wrote:

"And the not so minor BBS project which has been around at least as long
as 1999? And the Firebird Software Ltd gaming company that pre-dates all
of the popular open source projects? It's not our intent to cause
confusion or to see fences fall into a state of disrepair."

Let's take these in reverse order - Firebird Software Ltd seem to date
from the 1980's. They are not a registered UK company and do not even
show up as a dissolved company. In fact they seem to belong entirely to
the 1980's.

The Firebird BBS project is alive and well. But it is a pity that you
forgot to mention that it is in CHINESE and based in ROC.


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These guys seem to have done very little background checking on
anything. In fact, my best guess is that the only thing they did was
take their lawyers to lunch.


Paul
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Paul Reeves
http://www.ibphoenix.com
Supporting users of Firebird and InterBase