![]() And I wasn’t very impressed the the Mozilla Foundation’s reaction when the Firebird team complained. You can’t convince me for a minute that no one at Mozilla knew this name. It certainly wasn’t obscure to anyone in serious open-source web application development. I mean of the available open-source database systems, Firebird came in #3, after MySQL and PostgreSQL. But the minute I heard they had renamed the browser I knew there was going to be a problem. I mean, really, who had the burden of due diligence here? Who had the name first? I understand that the Mozilla people were frustrated because their first attempt for the new browser was ‘Phoenix’, which was similarly doomed, although the conflict was much more obscure. If anything, I held a grudge against the Mozilla project for a long time, and didn’t start using the new browser until they renamed it Firefox. I’m can’t believe anyone is still nursing a grudge against the Firebird/SQL people. While Linus had the name first, Microsoft is bigger (as Mozilla is) and a lot more consumers use Microsoft’s stuff (as Mozilla’s stuff). Maybe Microsoft should come out with a nice Linux Pro server that has nothing to do with Linux. ![]() It’s a pretty common gut reaction, but you have to move beyond it. I’m sure that a lot of people think that the name confusion probably hurt Firefox and since they care about that project, something that hurt it is evil. Unfortunately, the people defending Mozilla here have taken the stance that they like Mozilla better and so they should get the name. Obviously, they didn’t do it on purpose, but nonetheless, someone else had the rights to the name Firebird. Here, Mozilla didn’t research their name and grabbed a name that was the trademark of someone else – another open-source project. People usually claim they are defending Linux against Microsoft because Microsoft is evil. People defend Linux against Microsoft because they like Linux. It seems like people defend who they like. This has turned into a bunch or rants against Firebird over the naming dispute with Mozilla. If not, how can you explain that a project with more than 300.000 page views a month, only recently started to be reported on the news. You must be kidding!! Firebird team doesn’t have and never had a marketing way of thinking and this is a big obstacle for his growthing over the world. > before that fiasco? Now they get regular news coverage. > but over they way they chose to exploit the situation. ![]() Naming it’s simply a way of organizing relations and unique context names helps a lot, and after all we are talking about software classes with near relations (I’ve made a Internet Browser which use and save all it’s information on a Firebird DB). The naming issue is no fait-diver it’s a real one, after the Mozzila-Firebird project was born, searching for Firebird info on search engines like Google, was simply a joke. > Not over the fact that they had concerns over the naming issue Sqlite> insert into foods values ('Tequila', 7), ('Apple', 8), ![]() Sqlite> create table foods (name varchar(15), type_id integer) The effect on programmers like us is the same. Technically, a SQL engine just has to behave as if it evaluates the WHERE clause before the SELECT clause if it wants to comply with SQL standards. I haven't found this "feature" in the documentation.) That means that any alias you provide in the SELECT clause is unavailable to the WHERE clause. In standard SQL, the WHERE clause is evaluated before the SELECT clause. I'm willing to bet that the "foods" table doesn't have a "description" column, and that you're hoping the WHERE clause will pick up the column alias from your case statement.
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