Two reasons as far as I remember; 1. Pronunciation 2. "Fresh start"
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Paul Merlin <[email protected]> wrote: > Niclas Hedhman a écrit : > > Current logo; The current logo was designed by a young Chinese artist, > who > > associated the "Qi" (as in Energy) with some Chinese belief that the > inner > > Qi comes from steamed white rice. Also, he understood enough of Qi4j, > that > > he also liked the analogy of "small fragments making a whole", where each > > grain of rice represented a Qi4j fragment, with the "bowl of rice" being > > the larger whole. > > Yes! It makes a lot of sense! > > > Apache Rice ? (Not exactly search friendly, but...) > > I don't see any relevant results when searching for 'apache rice' on > various search engines, probably meaning that they return everything > that has either apache or rice in them. I understand that as: there's no > such thing already. > > Niclas, do you recall why we did not use Apache Qi in the first place? > Because of pronunciation issues? > Two characters was too short? > Something else? > > Cheers > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
