On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 12:31, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > "Sander Striker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > And to clarify: Native American Indian tribe names are inappropiate. > > Given the name "Apache" .. this is an inconsistent statement. Is this > (a new) political correctness thing or some policy?
Bingo. > I'm obviously not native American, but if I were I'd personally be > happy to have a major project like Apache Geronimo be named after him. > In fact, it feels rather apropos given the David vs. Goliath scenarios > involved! Geronimo was an Apache was he not? So it definitley seems odd that we can name our whole organization after the people of Geronimo but not Geronimo himself (yes, I know the name came from "a patchy server, but that's not obvious to anyone most of the time). > Sanjiva. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
