----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel F. Savarese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jakarta has no more political connotations than Apache, or Java, or Axis, > and so on. You cannot do anything about people reading things into names > that aren't there and you shouldn't cater to or be manipulated by other > people's inability to exercise common sense. Apache Jakarta is a > well-established/recognized brand and changing the name would be silly. > A project name, whether it references a geographical location, happens to > have an unintended double meaning (which is the case with more than a couple > of Apache projects), or whatever else, is not an endorsement of > attributes/events/etc. surrounding the intended or unintended reference. > Jakarta is a nice play on the name Java for obvious reasons. Anyone who > chooses to overinterpret the significance of the name doesn't deserve > to be catered to. +1 > daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
