Answer for: The funniest/strangest open source names
#5 Apache HTTP Server
by rofranco 1 year ago
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Eight programmers with an interest in doing more with a common software application -- the NCSA Web server that had originally been developed by Rob McCool -- found each other on the Net and began exchanging ideas, changes, and fixes.
At first the group referred to their project by the joke name "A Patchy Server" -- in reference to the patches they were applying to the NCSA server to add features and fixes. Ultimately, the Apache name was formally adopted out of respect for the Native American tribe ... and the eight programmers became known as the Apache Group.
http://httpd.apache.org/
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