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The new names were needed for Phoenix because of undisclosed legal issues. Mozilla's Asa Dotzler, who made the announcement on his Weblog, said the new names were chosen "after months of discussion and further months of legal investigation.""In addition to securing Firebird, we've also got the OK from those contributing legal resources to use the name 'Thunderbird' for a mail client. Hopefully this will be the end of naming legal issues for a while," Dotzler said.
Article [atnewyork.com]
