what's so great about Mozilla?
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It's not owned by netscape.
``Mozilla'' was the original code name for the product that came to be known as Netscape Navigator, and later, Netscape Communicator.
Later, it came to be the name of Netscape Communications Corporation's dinosaur-like mascot.
Now, we intend to use the name Mozilla as the generic term referring to internet client software developed through our open source project.
Netscape Communications Corporation holds trademarks on the names Netscape, Navigator, and Communicator; it has not yet been decided what, if any, restrictions Netscape will place on the use of those names. However, a generic term for browsers is still needed, and ``Mozilla'' is as good a name as any.
So, Mozilla is a set of technologies, but not a specific (in biologic terms, Mozilla is a genus; a particular product is a species). And mozilla.org (pronounced Mozilla Dot Org or The Mozilla Organization) is the group of people who coordinate the project. "
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