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Phoenix and Minotaur - New Names finally chosen . . .

Postby DJGM » Tue 15 Apr, 2003 4:16 am

After months of speculation and legal wrangling, it has been decided that
the new name for the standalone spin off Mozilla browser will be Firebird.
As for the standalone mail app, Minotaur, that will become Thunderbird.

More details plus comments at MozillaZine - click here . . .
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Re: Phoenix and Minotaur - New Names finally chosen . . .

Postby Fulvio » Tue 15 Apr, 2003 11:14 am

DJGM wrote:After months of speculation and legal wrangling, it has been decided that
the new name for the standalone spin off Mozilla browser will be Firebird.
As for the standalone mail app, Minotaur, that will become Thunderbird.

More details plus comments at MozillaZine - click here . . .


It is a funny one, with all the tongue in cheek comments. And, is Firebird final?
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Postby Josh » Tue 15 Apr, 2003 12:16 pm

the Firebird name sounds good. Let's hope the browser will be as good.
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Postby Mandrake » Tue 15 Apr, 2003 11:02 pm

Great names, I hope the apps are jus as good :)

Someone at MozillaZine suggested using the 'bird' names for Composer/Calender etc, what do people think of this? I think It'd be a good idea. IceBird for Composer, AirBird for Callendar etc
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Postby Antony » Tue 15 Apr, 2003 11:04 pm

They should use "cats" or "dogs" names. :evil:
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