Subject Re: Mozilla project use of Firebird name
Author brendaneich
> If it is only an internal name why does it matter what it
> is. Browser2 would be fine if eventually the name is going
> to be dropped. That is what you are now saying isn't it?
>

The name was Phoenix. Going from Phoenix to Browser2 didn't occur to
us, and it would have seemed like a regression, but after the carnage
and pain of this week, it's looking pretty good!

Seriously, we don't use mundane numbered names for things that have to
live long enough in our Mozilla world. If we use more colorful names,
but they don't "leak" out and seem to collide with others' uses of
those names, then no one complains. If we have a renaming slashdot
story as a followup to the /. story about Mozilla Phoenix being
challenged by the Phoenix BIOS people, then we've leaked our own
codename. But we had to make some followup; even the Mozilla roadmap
uses Phoenix still, to refer to the "Browser2" thing.

/be