Daniel Veditz wrote:
Matthew Thomas wrote:
And then, in 1998, a crazy man called Eric (not the same Eric as the
other one) convinced the Netscape people to make Mozilla open source.
Very cool. Very froody.
Sort of. The idea of opening the source came from within Netscape ("In the
Christopher Jahn wrote:
As there is a company all ready making a mail program called
Mercury, I don't think this will fly.
It won't fly anywhere!
Mumble mumble...
PS: sorry for the multiple postings, I was not aware of the nwsgr change.
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Astrology
Matthew Thomas wrote:
Well now.
So now we have the Mozilla Project to continue making a browser which
will let people do neat stuff on the Web. And all is cool and froody,
except for those people who have decided to start the numbering at 1.0
again. Silly wabbits.
Followups set.
thought zilla came from godzilla meself...
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Subject: Re: Product name for Mailnews
Giovanni Gatti wrote:
...
By the way, how
Matthew Thomas wrote:
And
they determined that their browser would be the `Mosaic killer' ...
... Or `Moz-illa', for short.
All nice and stuff, but the core part is not the traditional telling of
the story. Common believe is that Mozilla means "Mosaic in the Godzilla
flavor". That's
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
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
Matthew Thomas wrote:
And then, in 1998, a crazy man called Eric (not the same Eric as the
other one) convinced the Netscape people to make Mozilla open source.
Very cool. Very froody.
Sort of. The idea of opening the source came from within Netscape ("In the
fight between the bear
and
Matthew Thomas wrote:
Giovanni Gatti wrote:
...
By the way, how come this nice name "Mozilla" for this project? Anyone
knows the true story from the very beginning?
Well now.
So now we have the Mozilla Project to continue making a browser which
will let people do neat stuff on the
