June 6, 2005

No, the SeaMonkey name is not official yet

Henrik Gemal has reported prematurely that the Mozilla Application Suite spinoff project will be renamed SeaMonkey.

Although this is one name submitted for use, the Mozilla Foundation has not yet confirmed that this name nor any other name is clear of trademark issues. We all remember the Firebird debacle, and would really like to avoid that in the future.

I'm going to quote Robert Kaiser, one of the drivers for this new project:

You might have noticed that there's no official announcement anywhere, there's just an attachment to a bug report (and not even the main rebranding one). Sure, someone of the SeaMonkey Council has attached it, so you can guess where we're going. But as long as there is no announcement by the SeaMonkey Council (and a reworked project page, which we have drafted already) you can't take this naming as official. We don't have a trademark yet, but as you might know, we've already used that name quite some :)

Please wait for an announcement and the real rebranding patch before taking it for granted :)

Robert (aka KaiRo) also says:

"as long as noone of the SeaMonkey Council or a mozilla.org-hosted (non-blog, non-wiki) page announces it, it's not official"

Posted by WeirdAl at June 6, 2005 9:26 AM
Comments

What other name candidates have been proposed? "Seamonkey" does not really sound like a software product. I nominate "Allizom" from the april fool joke. It sounds a bit exotic, refers directly to old Mozilla and brings its own marketing slogan: "Allizom - Because MSIE is a Real Joke"

(From Alex: You're barking up the wrong tree. :) Take it up with #seamonkey .)

Posted by: ADAXL at June 6, 2005 12:35 PM

As far as the Sea Monkeys go, the name has already been exploited by commercial interests.
http://seamonkeys.3wpages.com/

http://www.classicgaming.cc/pc/monkeyisland1/desktop_wallpaper.php

Posted by: Glanz at June 7, 2005 4:34 AM