On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 18:59 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 16:05 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > I would more readily support an entirely new name. > > > > The only way I could see ever that happening was under the threat of legal > > action. > > Since Firefox, renaming and relaunching seems like a marketing trick > that can really pay off. Of course it would be insanely difficult for > such a large project.
Note that the Firebird name was dropped because it conflicted with some database software. I don't recall why Phoenix was dropped, but it wasn't very unique. In any case, I think it's safe to say that the Firefox name wasn't chosen as a marketing trick, and that the heavy advertising which happened after the name switch is more likely to have paid off. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list