----- 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



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