Asa posted this link in this entry on his weblog.

Very funny, and true, so I wanted to share…

You call things names, you end up being called names: that’s just the way these things go.
First there was the hyper-active farce of Firebird (the Mozilla browser) versus Firebird (the database).
For those of you not bothering to keep up, Firebird the database was a fork of software that was called Interbase which was owned by Borland a company which used to be called Inprise and before that used to be called Borland, deep breath.
You’d think the Firebird developers would by now be accustomed to the transitory nature of names, but nooo. They were *shocked* when Mozilla started using the term Firebird, and insisted they were the *only* Firebird on the block, even though
a) there were dozens of software Firebirds before them (including BT’s short-lived games division) and
b) the only thing anyone can remember about Firebird the DB was that it had massive security hole wired into it by Borland/Inprise/Borland that took them six months to find.
Dire threats were hurled, until Mozilla pointed out that the Firebird name was just the semi-internal *project* name, and since no-one calls the current browser “Seamonkey” (*its* project name), they should calm the motherfirebird down – nobody cares about you or your weirdo legacy software…
Couldn’t agree more