Re: Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote:
(a pyrrhic victory!)....
What?
Rebirth from the ashes - Phoenix had complications so Firefox was chosen
to symbolise the victorious rebirth of, um, - the spirit/ghost of
Netscape(?).
Supposedly the revenge of Netscape on fnord Microsoft. (anecdote)
The story of the rising from the ashes (the nature of a phoenix), is
unrelated to a Pyrrhic Victory.
A Pyrrhic Victory is when one side wins a battle but loses the war.
Not trying to be argumentative - just trying to give the correct meaning
of the term "Pyrrhic Victory".
"A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or drink not, from the Pierian Spring"
- Alexander Pope; "An Essay On Criticsm" (1709)
(
More official (?) version:
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the
Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and
drinking largely sobers us again."
)
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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