Olaf Titz wrote:
>
> > 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
Think Thomas's version sound plausible and at least more fun anyway.
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