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