Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 9/25/06, Saad Shakhshir <shakhshir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's been a thorough discussion of the legality of shipping re-branded
> versions of Firefox in Debian [1].  Apparently Firefox's code is free, but
> the logo and name are copyrighted and are required to be used together.  It
> appears that the resolution will be for Debian to change Firefox's name in
> Etch.  Will Ubuntu be doing the same?
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622
>
> -SS-


I remember before I like the name "Firebird" much better, but then it
switched to "Firefox", and [before] I was annoyed because we're all not used
to that name.

In the beginning, there's Netscape
Then Netscape open source their browser and named it, Mozilla
But Mozilla was very resource hungry, so they create Firebird, a slim
version.
And Firebird got very popular in the internet, but the name was conflicting
with an open source SQL server, so they name it Firefox.
But Firefox will no longer use the name Firefox since the name is a
trademark.
And now, the fate of the name will just have to wait...

To be continued....


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