February 12, 2003
Chimera Name
Mike Pinkerton confirms that Chimera 0.7 wont ship until it has a new name. There are legal issues with the Chimera name due to an old unix browser being called the same thing. I remember reading that it was Hyatt who named it. Did he not do a google search for the name before?
Anyways, Mike says that its hard to get a name that is cool and can get through the Netscape legal department. Their two names up for consideration right now are Camino and iVoyage. Personally they don't do anything for me, and Mike says he gets laughed at when saying the name might be Camino. I really hope they don't use iVoyage. We don't need people outside of Apple using the iNames more. It seems every second peice of software for OS X is an iSomething. Enough with the "i"! Even Apple is moving away from that naming convention with Safari. Surely something cool like that can get through the legal department.
Or they could just go with the suggestion in the minutes of a Mozilla.org meeting and name it "C******" (this would only be temporary so they could get a release out).
Whatever happens I just want a name that doesn't suck and some new releases!
11:34 PM | Category: Technology
