Re: Will IceWeasel be based on a fork or on vanilla FireFox?

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

"Sam Morris" <sam@robots.org.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:43:51 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> I think there will be a serious attempt at collaborating with the
>> Gnuzilla folks to try to resolve this confusion. Meanwhile, we're
>> trying to get the existing Firefox into Debian as free software.
>
> Surely such an attempt can only end in one of two outcomes: they rename,
> or we rename. Since they used the name first, I think it is only polite
> that we choose to rename; therefore why not pick a new name at the start
> without having to drag Firefox users through *another* pointless name
> transition?

The third possibility is merge.  Are this actually different projects?

Matthias