--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Rail <daniel@a...> wrote:

> Hi Brendan,
>
> At April 18, 2003, 00:25, brendaneich wrote:
>
>
> > 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?
>

Please don't misquote Doug Chamberlin's words as if they were mine.

> Please read the information on the following web site:
> http://www.inta.org/basics/ip/clearance.shtml
>
> Here's a scenario that can happen:
>
> I go see a company 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 the browser on the company's computers.

Where did he get that browser? No distro, no company such as
Netscape, will be calling anything Mozilla provides via open source
"Firebird". No CEO will approve his IT dep't installing nightly or
monthly testing builds from mozilla.org, either. Your scenario is
fatally flawed.

/be