httpd lineage

[Paul Lussier]

Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:20:14AM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> I'm a big fan of consistency. Call the package what the package is.
>> httpd is not the name of the software, that would be apache.  
>
> Er... I don't think I agree with you. The name of the software is
> "Apache HTTP Server". Saying that the name of the software is Apache is
> ignoring the fact that there are about 40 other projects equally capable
> of taking the name 'Apache': Everything from 'Apache Jackrabbit' to
> 'Apache Xalan'.

Well, yeah, sure, but the http server was the first, and is the most
well known project to come from the ASF.  It has *always* been
referred to as 'apache' when talking about "the web server I run on my
linux box" by Joe Linux-user.  There is nothing from the ASF that is
as well known.  It's also the *only* ASF project to not actually have
a name, a al tomcat, jackrabbit, etc.

> "Apache" is totally non-specific, and I've had people
> tell me they have 'Apache' running when what they really have running is
> Tomcat.

Well, this is clearly user error and said user ought to be beaten with
a clue-stick until they attain the level of pedantry required to
effectively communicate with those of our nature ;)

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Paul
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