On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 14:07, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:Stravisnky wrote "The Firebird" in 1910 ...
Well Pontiac made a car called the Firebird ... dating back to 1967.I know only of one Firebird and it is the database. I strongly object to legitimating the stealing of its name by a higher profile project who is trying to bully them.
Which came first. ;^)
There's a band in Southampton called "Xavier Floyd Firebird" ...
The Firebird is a creature from ancient legend ... (Phoenix) ...
There's a racetack in Boise, Idaho called Firebird ...
www.firebird.net is a design company in Ireland ...
Firebird books is an imprint of Penguin Putnam Inc (www.firebirdbook.com) ...
The fact that two software projects happened to choose the same code name is coincidence, it's a popular name. I hadn't heard of the firebird database before, and I don't expect the Mozilla folks had either, it's not exactly similar technology is it.
jch
