MozillaZine: Firebird Database Project Admin Ann Harrison Interviewed

“Why do you disagree with Phoenix being renamed to
Firebird?

“Basically, because the users of Firebird object. Our users
develop applications based on Firebird and other open source
components. That’s their bread and butter. When they say that
something will damage them, I have an obligation to respond.

“The project admins didn’t go looking for Mozilla. Our users
told us about the name change and we moved to support them.

“And I’ve spent most of the last week responding to people who
read about this on Slashdot and call me a spammer, a terrorist, and
a sucker of moose balls. And a lot of people who are upset in a
perfectly civil way. To all of them, I’ve said, ‘The developers who
depend on Firebird for their livelihood feel threatened and upset.
My responsibility as a project administrator is to help
them…'”

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