突然發現firebird也是另一個opensource計劃的名字
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
對方似乎怒氣沖天
嗯嗯...奇怪....為什麼會這樣呢 ?
如果對方強力反彈的話...Phoenix會不會被迫再次改名呢 ?
引言回覆:
14-April-2003 Mozilla Takes Firebird's Name for its Browser
The Mozilla subproject formally known as "Phoenix" has decided to rename its lightweight browser product to "Firebird". The Firebird development team, and the larger Firebird community, strongly oppose this change.
We of the Firebird project are proud of our product and devoted to our branding. Our marks are not there for the taking and our advice is that the law is on our side: we have nearly three years of widespread international use of our mark.
Legal issues notwithstanding, we take this as a slap in the face to the entire open source community. The easy route will be for Mozilla to quickly retract what it has done and pay the open source community the courtesy of an apology. The hard route, which we sincerely hope to avoid, will be Mozilla proceeding with this, losing its Open Source cred and goodwill and taking the risk of making its product untouchable by the distributors.
We are dismayed that Firebird was not contacted before Mozilla's decision was finalized. This breach of principle has occurred in the heartland of open source, where we are all supposed to be above such things. The attitude adopted by Mozilla's vocal proponents of the change, in essence "if they don't like it they can sue", is contrary to the generally accepted core values of the open source community. It reflects poorly on a community that voices strong opinions when corporate entities employ similar tactics. If Open Source is to win, we can do without brother cynically stealing from brother.
Please make your feelings on this issue known by emailing and posting to the Firebird-general list and to other forums where our objections can be heard:
* Mozilla.org newsgroup, netscape.public.mozilla.general
* talkback on the Mozilla announcement at the mozillazine site (you need to open a member account to post)
* participate in Mozilla's own thread on the topic
* post to slashdot.com
* send emails to individuals on the Mozilla team - see Mozilla's staff list and role list for addresses
Firebird thanks you for your support.
The Firebird Admins
John Bellardo, Helen Borrie, Pavel Cisar, Ann Harrison, David Jencks, Sean Leyne, Mark O'Donohue, Dmitry Yemanov