What about the "real" Firebird BBS open source project that's been around since at least '99? What about the very "real" Firebird Software Ltd.? What about the "real" Firebird Mortgage Application Software? What about the "real" Firebird NTP client? These are all real software projects with real products. Re: Protecting Mozilla's Open Source Cred. P.S.: Searching freshmeat and google for software projects named Firebird only turns up the Interbase DB, I am curious to know what the other four projects are. The only reason I can see for continuing with this course of action is laziness or hubris, neither of which are desirable qualities for a community-built project. Regardless of whether they can legally get away with calling it Firebird (or Mozilla Firebird), it is rude to the existing project(s), especially when avoiding a conflict requires almost no effort on their part.
NET to Mozilla, despite the possible publicity, so I find the behaviour of the Moz dev team in this instance very hypocritical. The Mozilla developers would be up in arms if Microsoft renamed. If nothing else these news have brought attention to the FirebirdSQL Foundation and its projects.Ĭalling my new micro-brewery product "Coca-cola Beer" will undoubtedly bring attention to the original Coca-cola, but that does not give me any ethical or legal grounds to do so. The Firebird database was not the first one to use the name.
There are five Free Source projects with the Firebird name. Parent article: Will the real Firebird please stand up? In reply to: The Mozilla Firebird browser by nan This data is collected anonymously and is not linked to your personal data.Posted 15:13 UTC (Thu) by mguenther (guest, #5609) To optimize our own advertising campaigns, we link certain actions, such as an order with any advertisement through which you may have reached our site (e.g. No personal data is collected, a disclosure to third parties is excluded. That allows us to constantly improve our website. We use an analysis tool (Matomo) hosted on our own servers which for instance allows us to track which pages are visited most frequently. We host a customer service live chat on our own servers, no data is transmitted to third parties for this purpose. No personal data is collected and no data is permanently stored. These cookies are necessary for the functionality of our website and cannot be switched off within our system. With your consent, we also collect page views and other statistical data in anonymized form. We use cookies for the technical functionality of this website.
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