As an enthusiastic Mozilla user, I must say I have found Asa's "get
over it" attitude not conducive to the debate. He could be a great guy
for all I know, but I find your posts much more reasonable. IMHO we've
too many Mozilla people dismissing the issue far too lightly, and I
hope you do reach some agreeable understanding w. the Firebird DB ppl.

Best,
Tsee

--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "brendaneich" <brendan@m...>
wrote:

> I'm much more sympathetic to the claim that mozilla.org will be stuck
> having to use the "firebird" program name, so that when people launch
> or run that program, they'll see it -- and that this dilutes (rather
> than confuses) the meaning of the open source brand you've built.
>
> I agree that's a problem, or actually several problems. I'm working
> with staff@m... to do something about it. But I'm here to say
> that until the hate-mail abates, we aren't going to make much progress
> on the substantial issue.
>
> /be