Eight early webmasters, including Behlendorf, started an e-mail discussion group and started sharing their software patches. The group eventually decided to name their project "Apache" after the last Native American tribe to surrender in the United States.
"Somebody else said it makes for a good pun because we're combining all of our patches together so it's a 'patchy' server," said Behlendorf, who like the others is working for other companies that are building on Apache.
maybe the best we can say, is both are correct origins; other than trcking down and asking each of those original webmasters/developers.
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the origins of "apache" as the name seems to be muddled...
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http://www.bsdatwork.com/2004/07/30/open_source_s
Eight early webmasters, including Behlendorf, started an e-mail discussion group and started sharing their software patches. The group eventually decided to name their project "Apache" after the last Native American tribe to surrender in the United States.
"Somebody else said it makes for a good pun because we're combining all of our patches together so it's a 'patchy' server," said Behlendorf, who like the others is working for other companies that are building on Apache.
maybe the best we can say, is both are correct origins; other than trcking down and asking each of those original webmasters/developers.
the article mentions being able to "browse" other windows machines... does anyone know if apple uses samba to do this or something else?