On Monday 26 February 2007, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)': > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:27:17 +0000 (UTC) > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-02-25, Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:55 pm, Dan Farrell wrote: > > >> but 'IceWeasel' is ugly. Bon Echo is such a nice name. > > > > > > I'd prefer firefox_alt or something similar. Something that tells > > > me what it is.... > > > > Um, if you're not allowed to use the trademarked name > > "firefox", then calling it "firefox_alt" is also going to be a > > trademark violation. > > This reminds me of when it was called "FireBird", and then they had to > change the name becuase of trademark violations or something of the > sort.
It was actually much less serious. Firebird is an open-source database that's been around (although not that popular) for longer than the mozilla project. The browser graciously decided, after notification (no posturing or threatening) by the database team not to overlap the names presumably to avoid confusing users. Now, that decision may have been made for a different reason. The company behind firefox probably wanted to be able to use the name as a trademark/brand at some point in the future and the pre-existing project may have undermind that. IIRC, there was also a similar issue with the name "Pheonix". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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