- From: Rob Hartill <hartill@ooo.lanl.gov>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 9:29:56 MDT
- To: davis@dri.cornell.edu
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Speaking for myself, and not necessarily the Apache group or LANL.. > The Apache server is free, nobody's exploiting the name for profit, at > the expense of the Apache people. > > You may not be making profit in money, but you are making "profit" in > reputation. You must have percieved *some* advantage or favorable > connotation in using the name, else why pick it? Surely you don't > your projects at LANL by picking a word at random from the dictionary. If you read the Apache FAQ, you'll see why the name was picked. LANL projects are named after pseudo-random acronyms, at least that's the way I see it. > I'm sure if we called it the "English", "Welsh", "French"... server, > none of those nations would feel hurt in any way. Why should the > Apache feel any different ?. Suggesting they might feel differently > is probably a bigger insult to them than using the name. > > Because unlike the English and French, the Apache were violently > persecuted, nearly to extinction, by foreign conquerors. (The Welsh > were persecuted as well.) ...and the Welsh wouldn't be offended if a httpd server were named after them. Apache, pronounced "something-else". rob
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