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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Thursday, September 16, 2004 4:45:44 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:28:52 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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-A DataBase that no-one would have heard
of if it were not for
[Mozilla
].org
's decision to rename their Phoenix browser (which conflicted with Phoenix
[BIOS
] co's interest in browsers) to the same name, after months of checking and the decision that no-one would get confused
.
+FireBird is a spinoff
of [Borland
]'s OpenSource~d ~InterBase. See the
[Firebird sourceforge page | http://firebird.sourceforge.net
].
-Uproar ensued.
-
-Now,
Mozilla.org have rescinded and said that Firebird is only
the name
of the platform
, like Seamonkey is the name for the current platform
.
-
-Firebird is a spinoff of [Borland]'s open-sourced !InterBase
.
+It was much lesser known before [
Mozilla]
.org's decision to rename their browser from Phoenix (which conflicted with
the Phoenix [BIOS] trademark) to FireBird after months
of research. Uproar ensued
, and Mozilla
.org renamed their browser MozillaFirefox
.
