On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:14:53AM -0800, Paul wrote:
> --- Nick Tonkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Personally I find the very name Apache a little uncomfortabl. I get
> > the joke about it being a patchy server (although now the ratio of
> > original NCSA code to `new' code is so miniscule as to invalidate the
> > patch theme anyway, imho), but the relevance of an http server to the
> > Apache nation escapes me (and the symbolizing of the Apache nation
> > with a feather strikes me as stereotypical at best).
>
> Let's be careful here, people.
> It was a linguistics joke, not an ethnic one.
> No 'relevance' was ever intended.
i want this thread to die as much as everyone else, but i feel
compelled to correct history a bit -- the "a patchy server" story
is apocryphal. the name came before the pun.
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-04/behlendorf_02.html
(but, really, let this part of the thread die, please.)
another note to throw out there -- o'reilly claims trademarks on
the camel/perl association and the mod_perl/eagle association,
so someone will either need to get permission from them to print a
shirt perpetuating those associations, or come up with a different
idea. search the list archives for this same discussion from last
year.
jim
