The following blog post https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/
triggered an intense (and at times harsh) discussion on the ASF members list. As you may have read ASF is forming a committee tasked to reach for the Apache Nation representatives and assess with them the usage of the name Apache which is, as claimed in that post, to be an appropriation.
I hope we may avoid to enter a discussion on this topic, it's getting overwhelmingly hard to follow it on the @members list. Currently a couple of discussion threads on @members count hundreds of messages.
My personal perception is that a consensus is shaping up for rebranding ASF, dropping the name Apache from the foundation name.
A few fellows who back in the mid-nineties were in the discussion about the name to choose for the HTTP web server reported that Apache was seen as problematic by many right from the beginning.
The name got momentum apparently because during the early HTTP web server development someone called it 'a patchy web server', due to the high number of patches that had been contributed. The pun a-patchy > Apache worked so well that obliterated the concerns about the choice.
Probably the name Apache will be around in software and services for many years to come, still my guess is that it will be removed from project names and the feather removed from the ASF and ASF's projects logos. We accidentally happen to have 2 feathers, one for ASF and one for the Tcl programming language.
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