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hermanradtke on June 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Does Software Rot?

> Apache, the most important web server software today, is an old piece of technology whose name is a play on words (“a patched server”) indicating that it has been massively patched.

Is this true? I have never heard that Apache was a play on of words.

kazagistar on June 25, 2016 [–]

Apparently its a myth, and the original intention was based on the name of the tribe. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/472/

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