fredagen den 18 april 2003 15.22 skrev Nando Dessena:

> P> Their web page is at http://www.firebird.org.tw/ (be warned, it's
> P> slow and I guess it won't make much sense without knowing Chinese).
>
> your second phare says it all, I think. FirebirdSQL is the only well known
> open source project under that name, that has an international recognition.
> Bringing things like that Firebird BBS to the discussion is just
> muddering the waters.

What does international recognition have to do with anything?

There are a number of web sites on the Internet that mention Firebird BBS, and
although I don't know Chinese myself, Mandarin Chinese is after all the
largest language in the world. One English-language site I did find said that
Firebird BBS is widely used in the Chinese internet community. While I can
not vouch for how authorarative that site is, it ia at least an indication
that there may be a problem.

Here's a scenario that can happen, shamelessly plagiarized from Daniel Rail's
post earlier:

I go see a company in China in regards to a contract to develop an application
that uses Firebird the RDBMS for it's database server. And, just
before I get to meet the CEO he just gave the approval to his IT
department to install Firebird BBS on the company's server (for corporate
communication). Now, if the CEO is not computer literate and just uses the
computer(with very basic knowledge), it can be hard to explain the
difference between the two to that CEO, and even explain that they are
not related in anyway. And, if the sales process takes a few days or
weeks, I can see the subject come up more than once.

Of course, I very well see your point from a *pragmatic* point of view, but
consider the irony in bashing a web browser project for making the exact same
mistake as you made, not googling for the project name before choosing.

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Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@...>