[sprayk]

> Co-founder Brian Behlendorf states how the name 'Apache' was chosen: "I suggested the name Apache partly because the web technologies at the time that were launching were being called cyber this or spider that or something on those themes and I was like we need something a little more interesting, a little more romantic, not to be a cultural appropriator or anything like that, I had just seen a documentary about Geronimo and the last days of a Native American tribe called the Apaches, right, who succumbed to the invasion from the West, from the United States, and they were the last tribe to give up their territory and for me that almost romantically represented what I felt we were doing with this web-server project..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apache_Software_Foundation...

[jointhehorse]

That is almost certainly a retcon - their FAQ used to say otherwise, back in the late 1990s:

> Why the name "Apache"?

> A cute name which stuck. Apache is "A PAtCHy server". It was based on some existing code and a series of "patch files".

https://web.archive.org/web/19970106233141/http://www.apache...

[sprayk]

Hm, interesting. I guess they both could be true, like I could totally see myself sitting around trying to come up with a fun name for my software project and being influenced by a film I saw the previous weekend. But given that the documentary where the quote originated smells more like marketing than anything else, I would not be surprised at all if this were indeed a retcon. I wish the docu was still up.