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Firebird vs Firebird, is it War?

A short spat with Phoenix Technologies a while back left Phoenix with no official name due to legal issues, however, quite recently, a new name was announced; Firebird.

This development have placed the Phoenix project in the crosshairs of an open source project which develops a server database called Firebird. No legal issues are present, Mozilla's Firebird browser has every right to lay claim to a name which has permiated culture and society for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, the Firebird database supporters seem to object strongly to Phoenix browser changing its name to Firebird. While both groups claim that they will take a calm and civil stance on this issue, there has been an explosion of trolling on Mozillazine.org's new Firebird support forums. These so called upholders of moral principles, in their zeal to show loyalty to the Firebird Database, have resorted to pasting the forums with links to their own project, claiming that they are new versions of the Firebird browser.

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