Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact docs-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list docs@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 20333 invoked by uid 500); 23 Dec 2002 02:12:15 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-apache-docs@apache.org Received: (qmail 20328 invoked by uid 500); 23 Dec 2002 02:12:15 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-docs-1.3-cvs@apache.org Received: (qmail 20325 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2002 02:12:14 -0000 Received: from icarus.apache.org (63.251.56.143) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 23 Dec 2002 02:12:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 69016 invoked by uid 1085); 23 Dec 2002 02:12:14 -0000 Date: 23 Dec 2002 02:12:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20021223021214.69015.qmail@icarus.apache.org> From: coar@apache.org To: httpd-docs-1.3-cvs@apache.org Subject: cvs commit: httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual/misc FAQ-A.html X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N coar 2002/12/22 18:12:13 Modified: htdocs/manual/misc FAQ-A.html Log: i've finally been triggered into fixing this and setting the record straight Revision Changes Path 1.13 +15 -14 httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html Index: FAQ-A.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual/misc/FAQ-A.html,v retrieving revision 1.12 retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -u -r1.12 -r1.13 --- FAQ-A.html 13 Mar 2002 16:28:09 -0000 1.12 +++ FAQ-A.html 23 Dec 2002 02:12:13 -0000 1.13 @@ -230,22 +230,23 @@ Why the name "Apache"? -

A cute name which stuck. Apache is "A +

The name 'Apache' was chosen from respect for + the Native American Indian tribe of Apache (Indé), + well-known + for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their + inexhaustible endurance. For more information on the + Apache Nation, we suggest searching + Google, + Northernlight, or + AllTheWeb.

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Secondarily, and more popularly (though incorrectly) accepted, + it's a considered cute name which stuck. Apache is "A PAtCHy server". It was based on some existing code and a series of "patch files".

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For many developers it is also a reverent connotation to - the Native American Indian tribe of Apache, well-known - for their superior skills in warfare strategy and - inexhaustible endurance. For more information on the - Apache Nation, we suggest searching Google, - - Northernlight, or - AllTheWeb.