Name
According to the FAQ in the Apache project website, the name Apache was chosen out of respect to the Native American tribe Apache (Inde) and its superior skills in warfare and strategy. The website also explains the popular but erroneous origin of the name, A Patchy Server (since it was a conjunction of software patches).
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Famous quotes containing the word name:
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)