So it wasn't used before Thunderbird, that was the point of OP and myself. We were talking about the email client(!).
replyAnd I was an user of firebird, the database.
Yes that is a confirmation.
replyFirebird was actually the database whose name they hijacked when they had access to AOL's legal army.
replyAlso K9Mail is now Thunderbird for Android.
They didn't really hijacked anything. Firebird made sense coming from phoenix. It wasn't a good choice considering the database existed before but it wasn't really an hijack in the sense that both are significantly different product that trademarks wouldn't have clashed. It was just annoying when doing web searches (similarly to gemini the google AI product vs the protocol).
replyIt wasn't that simple. I couldn't find Firebird's original position post but this is close enough.
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