Apache Quotes
One name, two very different worlds.
These Apache quotes cover two unrelated meanings entirely, starting with a note on how military hardware borrows native naming, including Apache Longbow helicopters alongside Black Hawks and Tomahawk missiles. From there, the topic shifts into software, describing the Apache open-source model as Design by committee.
My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache...
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You've got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in...
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
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So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in...
Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache...
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Other quotes speak from inside that open-source world, describing the personal reward of recognition and the ongoing work of explaining why more projects should follow the Apache model. One frames that explanation as a kind of politics worth Doing.
