At 12:01 07/02/2001 -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote:
>Olaf Titz wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
>I've heard the Mosaic Killer version from @netscape.com email addresses.
>I'd be surprised if they didn't have Godzilla in mind when they chose
>the way the words would be combined, though (otherwise why not Mosiller
>or Mosailler? Especially considering that (unless you're British or from
>Boston (aren't nested parentheses great?)) the suffixes "-a" and "-er"
>are pronounced distinctly differently...)
You mean as in 'The Thriller from Manilla' ?
Simon
>Stuart.
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