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The rename happened over a trademark for another product called phoenix (a database if I recall correctly). They first renamed it from Phoenix to Firebird due
by dagw 8y ago
The rename happened over a trademark for another product called phoenix (a database if I recall correctly).
They first renamed it from Phoenix to Firebird due to a trademark dispute with Phoenix the BIOS company (which doesn't exist any more). They then promptly got called out by Firebird the Open Source database project and eventually had to change their name again to Firefox.
- _asummers 8y agoThat story is kind of funny. "Let's call it Phoenix!" gets sued "Uh okay, a Phoenix is like a fire bird right? That sounds pretty cool, let's do that!" gets called out "Okay well what's another animal we can use? How about fox?"
- dagw 8y agoYea, you'd think if you're forced to change the name of your product due to the name clashing with and existing software project/company, you'd take some time to make sure the new name you chose doesn't also clash with an existing software project/company.
- jillesvangurp 8y agoHah, true. I completely forgot about it being called Firebird in between.