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by kevindamm 928 days ago
IIRC, it was named that for being a patchy system, though?
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Yes, it was called A patchy server initially, and then that was made into a wordplay on the term Apache, and they used a colourful feather as a logo.

There is also sn interesting anecdote about Apache devs, IBM and open source.