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Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Phoenix becomes Firebird, Minotaur becomes Thunderbird
Ending weeks of speculation, Mozilla.org announced this week that it has secured the names Firebird and Thunderbird for its standalone Web browser and email client applications, respectively. The name changes were required because the previous name of the browser, Phoenix, was mired in some sort of legal issue. These name changes come just a few weeks after Mozilla.org essentially admitted that it wasted five years of everyone's lives by developing Mozilla as a massive, all-in-one application suite.
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