Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names 485
blazerw11 writes "Phoenix and Minotaur
have been officially renamed to Firebird for the browser and Thunderbird for the mail client. Interestingly, they're both named after cars I often see in my neighbors' lawns. At least these cars were pretty fast before they were put up on cinder blocks. Personally, I like the names and the browser is great. I'm writing this with one of the last Phoenix Nightlies."
Chimera renamed to Camino (Score:5, Informative)
"Firebird" is also taken (Score:5, Informative)
These folks must not have looked very hard if they thought "Firebird" was a name with no conflicts in the open-source world. Firebird SQL is on SourceForge, a pretty obvious place to look.
Compress it with UPX (Score:5, Informative)
ghostzilla (Score:2, Informative)
It will do cool things like open inside existing windows in greyscale with images only shown on mouseover, and it will disappear when you mouse leaves its area on to come back with a flick of the wrist. If you don't need precautions that serious, it has lesser settings of paranoia.
Re:Bloody Codenames! (Score:4, Informative)
What your talking about though is codenames. Those are supposed to change once the product is released. Excuse me if i'm wrong, but Pheonix wasn't a code name, It was a product name.
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:5, Informative)
As for a quasi-obscure DB? I think that a server side app and a web browser are easily differentiable. You can't download a database to view web pages and you can't do SELECTs on a web browser. And afaik they don't own the trademark. So I really don't think that it's that significant of a change.
Re:Bloody Codenames! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Request. (Score:3, Informative)
You don't recommend them very much, do you?
Netscape was "re-named" to Mozilla--which, in a way, is just publicizing the name it always had.
"Gecko" has always been the Mozilla render engine.
"Phoenix" stared out as "Phoenix" as "micro-Mozilla", and we've known for, oh, six months or so that it had to be re-named.
Minotaur is almost brand'spankin' new--and every mention I've seen of it had "to be re-named to thunderbird" stamped on it.
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Bloody Codenames! (Score:2, Informative)
Something similar happened with the Chimera browser too, I think.
Re:What about Composer? (Score:5, Informative)
I should shut my pie hole. (Score:4, Informative)
And to further prove I'm a retread, here [mozdev.org] is the page for whiny bitch windows users like me to install a choice of nightlies.
I'll go stand in the corner.
Re:Firebird, as in... (Score:5, Informative)
Mozilla's Firebird browser is not going to be confused with a relational database. Without customer confusion, there isn't a trademark problem.
--Asa
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:5, Informative)
Mozilla's Firebird browser isn't going to be confused with a relational database. Trademark onflicts only arise when there is customer confusion.
--Asa
Re:Wasn't AMD naming their chips after cars too? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:4, Informative)
There's a company that makes a web-browser called Phoenix, I believe for embedded systems.
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.phoenix.com/en/solutions/connect
Re:Bloody Codenames! (Score:3, Informative)
We use both Firebird and Phoenix at the office. Now, we're gonna have to start calling them "Open Interbase" and "Mozilla Junior" or something.
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:3, Informative)
I might knock up a Firebird software theme
Re:Firebird, as in... (Score:1, Informative)
uhm, yeah, why am I bothering again?