__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 01:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:23:14 +0100
> <1177229.OAQvzhRpln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Boy, am I sick of renaming this thing
>>
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>> | Phoenix, that was a cool name. Damn you PhoenixBIOS. Firebird was good,
>> | and who needs another database anyway? Mozilla Firefox is a cute name,
>> | with a cute logo. A logo we can't use. Oh wait, we can't use the name
>> | either?
>> |
>> | So the Mozilla Corporation has asked us to stop using the name "Firefox"
>> | in our version of Firefox, unless we use the fox on a globe logo. We
>> | can't use the logo because its copyright license is not free. Even if
>> | somehow we could do this, they want to vet every patch we apply before
>> | we release a package called Firefox containing it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://ze-dinosaur.livejournal.com/12083.html
>
> Hm. "Iceweasel" is the best they could come up with for the fork?
> Still, it might work. IMO, this dispute verges on stupidity, though.
> Then again, licensing can be like that.
Weasel might not work out in the enterprise though. Unless, of course, that
enterprise is Microsoft, where any Mozilla product is frowned upon by
principle. A nymshift could help.
Ballmer (leans over emplyee's chair): "WTF is that browser you're using? It
looks like Firefox!"
Employee: "No, it's Iceweasel."
Balllmer (takes arm off chain): "Ah, I see. I'll let uoi off this time..."
[Ballmer stumble away shrieking and yelling "Google, google, google. I'm
going to f***ing kill Google!!! Yeah, baby! Yeahhhhh!!"]
> One might go with HotVulpes. (Fox is of the genus Vulpes.
> The common red fox, for example, is vulpes vulpes -- see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fox . Unfortunately, most
> people don't know Latin, myself included.)
How about Latinas? Could get Foxy.
>> Also today:
>>
>> Microsoft sued over software name
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>> | It alleges Microsoft directly competes with Forefront with Great Plains
>> | and Solomon software, modified for the building industry.
>> `----
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>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34584
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