Subject Re: Mozilla project use of Firebird name
Author Doug Chamberlin
At 4/17/2003 01:34 PM (Thursday), Brendan Eich wrote:
>Probably I should have been vaguer: It's hard to pick a *good* name that
>isn't already taken. In the context of Phoenix the Mozilla browser,
>Firebird was the obvious choice -- surely you can sympathize with that
>progression of thought.

Why does the name have to have some meaning within the context of the
project to be "usable"? Think outside the box, man!

Mozby (just to pick a random name) is an entirely made-up name with no
strings attached, free for you to give meaning to and move into prominence.
In what way is Mozby not usable as a replacement for Phoenix?