> out of the Web. And they came up with the idea of writing a better
> Mosaic than Mosaic, and selling it for lots of MONEY. So Jim made a
> company, and he called it Netscape. And Marc went and got Jamie, and
AFAIR Jim first called his company "Mosaic Communications", and its
domain name was "mcom.com" (which is still registered to Netscape but
apparently not used much).
> But then the owners of the original Mosaic said, `Here! You can't use
> our name!' And Jim and Marc said, `Fine then, see if we care!', and they
> changed the name of Netscape Mosaic to `the Netscape Navigator'. And
> they determined that their browser would be the `Mosaic killer' ...
>
> ... Or `Moz-illa', for short.
I think the name Mozilla comes from Godzilla, whom its (semi?)official
mascot resembles.
Olaf
