Editing Jamie Zawinski (section)

==Biography==
Zawinski's programming career began at age 16 with [[Scott Fahlman]]'s [[Spice Lisp]] project at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. He then worked at AI startup Expert Technologies, Inc. followed by [[Robert Wilensky]] and [[Peter Norvig]]'s AI research group at [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]], working on [[natural language processing]].

In 1990 he began working at [[Lucid Inc.]], first working on [[Lucid Common Lisp]], and then on Lucid's Energize [[C++]] [[Integrated development environment|IDE]]. Lucid decided to use [[GNU Emacs]] as the text editor for their IDE due to its free license, popularity, and extensibility, and Zawinski led that project. As Zawinski and the other programmers made fundamental changes to GNU Emacs to add new functionality, tensions over how to merge these patches into the main tree eventually led to the [[Fork (software development)|fork]] of the project into GNU Emacs and Lucid Emacs (now [[XEmacs]]).<ref>
{{cite web
 |url = https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html
 |title = The Lemacs/FSFmacs Schism.
 |last = Zawinski
 |first = Jamie
 |date = 2000-02-11
 |access-date = 2023-05-01
}}
</ref>

In 1992 he released the first version of [[XScreenSaver]], a [[free and open-source]] collection now containing more than 240<ref>
{{cite web
 | website = XScreenSaver
 | title = List of screen savers included in the collection
 | date = 2020-12-08
 | url = https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
}}
</ref>
[[screensaver]]s. Initially released for [[Unix-like|Unix]], it now supports [[macOS]], [[iOS]], and [[Android (operating system)|Android]] as well. On Unix systems, it also provides the framework for blanking and locking the screen. He still maintains it, with new releases coming out several times a year.<ref>
{{cite web
 | website = XScreenSaver
 | title = Release history
 | date = 2020-12-08
 | url = https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
}}
</ref>

===Netscape and Mozilla===
Following Lucid's [[bankrupt]]cy in 1994, Zawinski was one of the initial employees of [[Mosaic Communications]], later known as [[Netscape]]. At Netscape, he developed the [[Unix]] release of [[Netscape Navigator]] 1.0,<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://www.jwz.org/doc/about-authors.html
 | title = Netscape Navigator's "about:authors" page
 | date = 1994-12-15
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
 }}
</ref><ref>
{{cite news
 | url = https://www.fastcompany.com/26443/can-you-work-netscape-time
 | title = Can You Work in Netscape Time?
 | first = Tom
 | last = Steinert-Threlkeld
 | date = 1995-10-31
 | work = [[Fast Company]] magazine
}}
</ref>
and later, [[Netscape Mail & Newsgroups|Netscape Mail]], the first mail reader (or [[Usenet]] reader) to natively support [[HTML]].<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/09/html-email-was-that-your-fault/
 | website = jwz.org blog
 | title = HTML email, was that your fault?
 | last = Zawinski
 | first = Jamie
 | date = 2017-11-20
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
 }}
</ref>

Zawinski came up with the name "[[Mozilla]]" (originally the internal code-name of the web browser) during a staff meeting, as a reference to [[Godzilla]] and a [[portmanteau]] of "[[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] killer".<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html
 | website = jwz.org
 | title = The Netscape Dorm
 | last = Zawinski
 | first = Jamie
 | year = 1996
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://davetitus.com/mozilla/
 | title = How was Mozilla born: The story of the first mascot on the Internet
 | author = Dave Titus with assistance from Andrew Wong
 | date = 2002-12-01
 | access-date = 2023-05-01
}}
</ref>

An [[easter egg (virtual)|easter egg]] he coded in the Netscape browser became quite well known during the early days of the [[World Wide Web]]: typing "about:jwz" into the address box would take the user to his home page, and would change the browser's logo animation to a fire-breathing dragon.<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://www.jwz.org/doc/about-jwz.html
 | website = jwz.org
 | title = The secret history of the about:jwz URL
 | last = Zawinski
 | first = Jamie
 | date = 2011-12-03
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
}}
</ref>

Through his long-time support and advocacy for [[free software]] both inside and outside the company, Zawinski is credited with having been the inspiration for Netscape's decision to [[open-source software|open-source]] the [[source code]] of the browser in 1998.<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://www.openoffice.org/editorial/ec1May.html
 | website = OpenOffice
 | title = Interview: Frank Hecker
 | last = Suárez-Potts
 | first = Louis
 | date = 2001-05-01
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010807131147/http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/ec1May.html
 | archive-date = 2001-08-07
 | url-status = live
}}
</ref><ref name="rebelcode">
{{cite book
 | last = Moody
 | first = Glyn
 | title = Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kIU1scm4w6QC
 | date = 2001-02-18
 | publisher = Basic Books
 | isbn = 978-0-7867-4520-3
}}
</ref>
He was a founder of [[Mozilla Foundation|Mozilla.org]], personally registering its domain name on the day of Netscape's open source announcement and helping design and run the organization through its first year.<ref>
{{cite book
 | title = Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
 | chapter = Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla
 | author = Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin with Susan Walton
 | url = https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/netrev.html
 | date= 1999-01-03
 | publisher = O'Reilly Media, Inc.
 | isbn = 978-0-596-55390-6
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite magazine
 | url = https://www.wired.com/1998/07/mozilla-organizer/
 | magazine = Wired
 | issue = 7
 | title = Electric Word: Mozilla.organizer
 | first = Paul
 | last = Boutin
 | date = July 1998
| volume = 6
 }}
</ref><ref>
{{cite web
 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980323/notebook.techwatch.netsc32.html
 | title = Netscape's Hail Mary
 | last = Quittner
 | first = Josh
 | date = 1998-03-23
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020223060137/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980323/notebook.techwatch.netsc32.html
 | archive-date = 2002-02-23
 }}
</ref>

When Netscape was acquired by [[AOL]] in 1999, he wrote a bulletin explaining that Mozilla's work would continue with or without Netscape.<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://www-archive.mozilla.org/fear.html
 | title = Fear and loathing on the merger trail
 | last = Zawinski
 | first = Jamie
 | date = 1998-11-23
 | publisher = [[Mozilla]]
 | access-date=2013-04-29
}}
</ref> And a year after the initial source code release, he resigned from Netscape and Mozilla, citing his disappointment that others involved in the project had decided to rewrite the code instead of incrementally improving it.<ref>
{{cite web
 | url = https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
 | title = Resignation and postmortem.
 | last = Zawinski
 | first = Jamie
 | date = 1999-03-31
 | access-date = 2013-03-29
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040807025430/https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
 | archive-date = 2004-08-07
 | url-status = live
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite news
 | url = https://www.cnet.com/news/aol-mozilla-lose-key-evangelist-1/
 | website = CNET
 | title = AOL, Mozilla lose key evangelist
 | last = Festa
 | first = Paul
 | date = 1999-04-01
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
}}
</ref>

===DNA Lounge===
Shortly after leaving Mozilla, he announced his purchase of [[DNA Lounge]], a [[nightclub]] in [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://www.theobvious.com/archive/2000/11/07.html
 | website = Stating the Obvious
 | title = Hacking the City
 | first = Greg
 | last = Knauss
 | date = 2000-11-07
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
 | archive-date = 2021-05-14
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210514045557/http://www.theobvious.com/archive/2000/11/07.html
 | url-status = dead
 }}</ref><ref>
{{cite news
 | url = https://www.salon.com/2000/02/10/zawinski/
 | title = Free the night life!
 | last = Leonard
 | first = Andrew
 | date = 2000-02-10
 | work = [[Salon (website)|Salon]]
 | access-date = 2013-04-29
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite magazine
 | url = https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/07/45264
 | magazine = Wired
 | title = From Netscape to Nightclub
 | first = Evany
 | last = Thomas
 | date = 2001-07-16
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080409003240/https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/07/45264
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
| archive-date = 2008-04-09
 }}
</ref><ref>{{cite web
 | title = Revenge is Sweet
 | work = SF Weekly
 | first = Dan
 | last = Strachota
 | date = 2001-07-18
 | url = https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/pop-philosophy/Content?oid=2142467
 | access-date = 2021-02-13
 | archive-date = 2021-09-23
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923120826/https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/pop-philosophy/Content?oid=2142467
 | url-status = dead
 }}</ref> Zawinski purchased the nightclub in 1999 for approximately 5 million dollars and it was re-opened in July 2001, a process which he documented extensively in a blog named "DNA Sequencing".<ref name="openideas">{{cite web|title=Owner of DNA Lounge, on verge of closing club, calls for 'ideas' to keep it open|work=SF Gate|first = Alyssa|last=Pereira|date=2016-12-19|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/DNA-Lounge-on-verge-of-closure-calls-for-10806736.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=From Netscape to Nightclub|first=Evany|last=Thomas|magazine=Wired|date=2001-07-16|url=https://www.wired.com/2001/07/from-netscape-to-nightclub/}}</ref>

In 2016, he explored alternative funding ideas to keep the venue afloat during a downturn in attendance.<ref name="openideas" />