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."
Re:a great compact browser (Score:4, Interesting)
--Dan
www.doxpara.com
Re:Umm... (Score:4, Interesting)
Why not.... (Score:2, Interesting)
After all "Internet Explorer" shouldn't be allowed to be a trademark in Internet industry, the same argument as Windows being a trademark ?
Plus that way they can get totally clueless joe six-packs to download thinking they are upgrading their IE,
Wow imagine the user base generated by that ?
Wasn't AMD naming their chips after cars too? (Score:5, Interesting)
What about Composer? (Score:2, Interesting)
moto? (Score:5, Interesting)
while looking around phoenix (Score:3, Interesting)
I have noticed that RadialContext [mozdev.org], which is probably the best thing that happened to browsers since the mouse, is now available for Phoenix, or Thunderbird, or whatever.
A little note on that is you can change all the skins to pngs (do a global replace on the sript files) and lower the opacity to like 70% or so. suddenly you've got transparenty menus! Looks sweet as all heck.
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:4, Interesting)
The company that primarily exists to support and improve Firebird and which employs many ex-Borland people (including the inventor of Interbase) is called IBPhoenix [ibphoenix.com].
Dave
Re:"Firebird" is also taken (Score:2, Interesting)
Now along comes Phoenix, and decide they're going to write a browser, and so get shitty that the name is already used. It was out of their domain, a different domain, and now that they're going into this new domain, they should have to deal with what's already there.
Compare this to the whole Apple music thing that's going on. Isn't this really like Apple (the software company) moving into the music domain and forcing Apple (the music company) to change their name?
Given windows market share... (Score:4, Interesting)
Idiots using duplicate names (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Request. (Score:4, Interesting)
I think there's a need for a "naming software projects HOWTO", covering:
Re:in related news... (Score:3, Interesting)
Netscape Navigator -> Lincoln Navigator
Internet Explorer -> Ford Explorer
Lynx -> Mercury Lynx
Mozilla Firebird -> Pontiac Firebird
Mozilla Thunderbird -> Ford Thunderbird
Hmmmm...all Ford products with the exception of Firebird. Maybe they should've picked 'Mustang'.
Re:in related news... (Score:3, Interesting)
Shades of Harry Potter (Score:3, Interesting)
The first Harry Potter book was the Philosopher's stone everywhere except the US, where it was the Sorcerer's stone. Phoenix, a mythical bird that consumed itself with fire, has been replaced with...firebird. Minotaur, a half man/half bull has been replaced with...thunderbird???
Seems like most of these name changes involve a dumbing down of the name. There are other examples around too. The question then, is WHY???
Re:Bloody Codenames! (Score:1, Interesting)