Subject Re: Mozilla project use of Firebird name
Author brendaneich
--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...> wrote:
> Brendan
>
> > We simply didn't think anyone would confuse Mozilla
> > Firebird for the Firebird RDBMS. I don't think anyone
> > will, but that doesn't excuse us from our failure to
> > contact you, in case we were missing something else (open
> > source "brand" dilution, hard feelings, google page rank,
> > or something that hasn't come up). Again, for my part,
> > _mea culpa_. Can you hear what I'm saying, please?
>
> PLEASE.

PLEASE what? I was addressing Helen.

>
> Do you at least agree that since browsing the data IN a
> Firebird database using a Firebird browser is a fundamental
> database operation, then having another browser element on
> the desktop also called Firebird COULD be confusing!

Yes, I agree.

> Especially since a lot of the Firebird database users have
> standardised on Mozilla as their text browser ( or access
> Firebird through PHP on Mozilla browser ).

We don't intend to rename our default-built browser component from
"mozilla".

/be