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That's a long time to hold a grudge. Mozilla Firefox was called Mozilla Firebird for 10 months, nineteen years ago. This was before version 1.0. I suspect it t
by orra 3y ago
That's a long time to hold a grudge. Mozilla Firefox was called Mozilla Firebird for 10 months, nineteen years ago. This was before version 1.0.
I suspect it took as long as 10 months because Mozilla already felt bruised from already having to change the name from Phoenix, due to a trademark dispute from Phoenix Technologies.
Nineteen years is plenty of time to forgive. You might even find the time to try Firebird SQL, instead of complaining about an ancient naming collision.
- dizhn 3y agoI am not really in IT anymore. This is the least I can do. Joking aside, it's not a grudge I hold but a bad taste I still remember. I think Mozilla is doing a lot of questionable things today and I see the breaking point as the AOL takeover. Thus the firebird thing is still something I remember. It's interesting you bring up the phoenix name issue. They should have been much more understanding after going through that ordeal and not bully another established open source project.