Apparently it's has been already said on the Wiki page. It's great to
know that such understanding of this matter is shared.
On Friday, Dec 19, 2003, at 21:01 Europe/Amsterdam, Chris Perrin wrote:
I couldn't have said it better myself.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Letifov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Why I am opposed to retaining the name Geronimo, and whi I
consider this VOTE to be biased.
Hello,
For me being a Russian resident of Netherlands the concerns linked
to
native american origin of name "Geronimo" should probably seem to be
really irrelevant. Fortunately they are not.
I do know who Geronimo was, and "jumping of a cliff" has the least
priority in all the information that is associated with the name.
First
things that come to mind are "Indian warrior" and "hero", "chief" as a
second. And as it was correctly pointed out freedom is what he was
fighting for.
Consider it a tribute to the hero. A gesture of respect. Let this
server be a proud warrior on the plains of cold corparate monsters
like
"WebSphere", "WebLogic" or (sorry) JBoss.
In this sense I have always liked the java page of gnu.org that says:
"Let's not forget that Java is also the name of the most populous
island in Indonesia, which contains the capital Jakarta and dominates
the other islands."
Ed Letifov
