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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:43:49 +1000 (EST)
From: Paul Gearon <pag at PISoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] what was precursor to Apache? (also Apache2.0B announce
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 hartr at interweft.com.au wrote:

> Apache came originally from the NCSA httpd server. After it had been out
> for a while, there were many patches that had been made available but
> not incorporated into the NCSA httpd tree. A group of people got
> together to maintain a forked version that included all the patches.
>
> As it was 'a patchy server', the name Apache seemed obvious :-)

Quite true, but that's not how the name came to be.  Quoting Brian
Behlendorf from a Linux Magazine interview:

<quote>

BB: Someone said they liked the name and that it was a really good pun.
And I was like, "A pun? What do you mean?" He said, "Well, we're building
a server out of a bunch of software patches, right? So it's a patchy Web
server." I went, "Oh, all right."

LM: That never occurred to you when you thought of the name?

BB: When I thought of the name, no. It just sort of connoted: "Take no
prisoners. Be kind of aggressive and kick some ass."

</quote>

:-)

http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-04/behlendorf_02.html


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