On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Glenn Holmer <gholmer_at_weycogroup.com> wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
>>
>> Apache Subversion actually started as "Inversion" around December
>> 1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we accepted
>> "Subversion" as a rename. It had "version" in the name, and we *were*
>> trying to subvert the CVS installations/community, so the name fit
>> extremely well :-)
>>
>> It became "Apache Subversion" in February 2010.
>
>
> Great story, thanks!
>
Agreed. On the name change topic, I had a professor who would
greet people with "heaveno" because he believed the traditional
greeting had satanic connotations. His attempts to make us use that
did not go very far...
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> Glenn Holmer
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Received on 2013-08-12 23:25:45 CEST