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From Ben's speaking, it seems they solves those issues in some way, though. And still, the name has smaller issues with registered trademarks in Europe (Germany and Switzerland). It again took the (now already founded) Mozilla Foundation months and legal chacking to find a name they could use (see Ben's blog). But after a short period, they saw that coming up with a different name again (sigh) was the nicer and more friendly way to go.
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After seeing that this was a peoblem, though not lagally, they decided to prefix the name with "Mozilla" so that "Mozilla Firebird" would clearly be a different thing. They did not consider, however, that (legally independent, because it's a different kind of software) there was already a not small, but not too public either, open-source project named "Firebird". As many people who lived in the Mozilla community quite some time, I love to stick with the Mozilla Application Suite (code-named "Seamonkey").ĪOL/Netscape/ went a long way to find a new name after they found out that Phoenix had issues (there already had been a browser called "Phoenix" somewhere), and they secured that "Firebird" had no legal issues. I'm not fond of any of those names, not even of the product itself. If you change the design three times because you or someone else didn't like the look, it's not a clearly a bug you fix, though it might be an enhancement or whatever). Well, it always depends what you consider an "error" (BTW, it's the same with bugs: If your app crashes, it's clearly a bug. Posted 16:57 UTC (Mon) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) But all this tremendous amount of time, effort, and resources that go to determining who owns which idea and which thought and which word, and who should be punished for thinking or saying something that somebody else owns- what's THAT all about? War is something that any species has to be overcome, but since you Earthlings devloped this and spend so much effort on this notion of owning thoughts and ideas, you must be REALLY backward. In line with years of science fiction cliches, they will be horrified with the violence and war that they see, of course, but they will say, well, any species that developed through the tooth-and-claw process of evolution will have to overcome those issues, so we can understand why you're struggling with it. I can imagine an alien civilization coming to Earth and looking at our civilization, and coming away scratching their heads. These impact freedom of speech issues too, even if a bit obliquely.
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When it takes this much effort for a free software organization to find a safe *name* for their project, it's clear that we've got some global issues with proprietization of words. Posted 16:06 UTC (Mon) by rknop (guest, #66)