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Netscape was called ``Mozilla.'' Mozilla was a term initially
created by Jamie Zawinsky and company during the development of
Navigator. The team was working at a similarly frantic pace to
create a beast vastly more powerful than Mosaic, and the word
became the official code name for Navigator. Later the big green
dinosaur became an inside joke, then a company mascot, and
finally a public symbol. Now the name came into use as the
generic term referring to the open-source web browsers derived
from the source code of Netscape Navigator. The move was on to
``Free the Lizard.'' There was an amazing amount to be done to
make the code ready for prime time. As issues surfaced, they
separated themselves into categories and were claimed. The next
three months were devoted to resolving issues at the fanatical
pace that Netscapers knew well. One of the largest issues was
the disposition of the third-p