Mailing-List: contact geronimo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Message-ID: <3F438E38.8020800@coredevelopers.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:05:28 +0100
From: Jules Gosnell <jules@coredevelopers.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030721
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Project Naming -Apache Geronimo
References: <8CF8C30CFD85D5119F9700105AE574208C57DA@MAXIMPDC>
 <3F436FB4.3080303@apache.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F436FB4.3080303@apache.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Berin Loritsch wrote:

> Adrian Field wrote:
>
>
>> cultural sensitivity (I think a couple of posts are on the right 
>> track with
>> contacting Native American organisations to see what their thoughts 
>> are on
>> this instead of being subjective),
>> negative association- suicide in some cultures through history has been
>> honourable.
>>
>
> More specifically the rite of hatakili (sp?) that Samarai were allowed to
> perform so that they could die honorably.

HaraKiri - lit. Cut-Stomach

> The nature of Geronimo's death
> is more consistent with this mindset.
>

???

http://www.tombtown.com/html/index2.htm?http%3A//www.tombtown.com/bios/geronimo.htm

"*During the winter of 1909, the 85 year old Geronimo fell off of his 
horse and remained in a ditch until the next day. He caught pneumonia 
and died a few days later on February 17, 1909."

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=geronimo+pneumonia&btnG=Google+Search

*

-- 
/**********************************
 * Jules Gosnell
 * Partner
 * Core Developers Network (Europe)
 **********************************/