[For some reason, my original post went through to the egroups.ibdi
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Doug Chamberlin wrote:

> At 4/17/2003 01:34 PM (Thursday), Brendan Eich wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Why does the name have to have some meaning within the context of
> the project to be "usable"? Think outside the box, man!

Why didn't you guys do something different from s/Phoenix/Firebird/
when you renamed, then? There were other uses of Firebird for
software and network things at that time. Were you not thinking
outside the box?

I'm looking for a little consistency and understanding.

The uproar here is out of proportion to the facts in evidence. Way
out. It would help if both sides expressed some understanding. I've
done so, belatedly and with an apology. What I get back here is not
reciprocal.

> 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?

It's a ridiculous name, a made-up word no one has ever heard of, or
ever used to refer to the existing project codenamed Phoenix. It
won't be popular -- any fool can see that. It bears no relation to
the current name. It's no more a good name than Madeline -- but if
you like either name so well, why not use one of them for your next
project? Why weren't they used when the Firebird RDBMS project was
renamed, instead of Firebird?

This is all getting silly and boring.

/be

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