Native American Group Urge Apache [Software] to Change its Name

Techradar ^ | 1/12 | Craig Hale

[Apparatchik]

“Yeah! Sue the moccasins off them! Heap big wampum!”

[Dan Cooper]

I think the name is a play on ‘a patchy web server’.

[Vendome]

No problem “Wounded Weak Knee”

Now off into obscurity like the gawds of Rome

[Eleutheria5]

Will Fort Apache in the Bronx have to change its nick-name?

[Eleutheria5]

What do you mean Wii?

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Just put an “M” in front of it. “Mapache.” Means “Racoon” in Spanish. NO WAY anyone could find anything racist about that.

[AppyPappy]

The group is probably all made up of Pretindians

[Eleutheria5]

Or how about Heckawi?

[xp38]

Change it. I think this was meant as an honour and if it’s not appreciated there are many alternative names. Tomahawk missiles are up next I assume.

[glorgau]

The proper response is to tell them to GFY.

[Skywise]

Fine. Call it white man software.

[ducttape45]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!! How’s that?

[Angelino97]

Native Americans gave us some cool names and nice jewelry.

In return, we gave them modern medicine, the internet, computers, cell phones, air travel, indoor plumbing, electricity, films, TV, radio, etc.

Sounds like they got a good deal. But if they want to trade back, okay.

[beethovenfan]

OK, call it Redskin

[conserv8]

I like technology.
I am glued to my pixel windows.

But don’t be disparaging those that lived lives in relative harmony with their environment.

The power grid goes down and you are in their world.
Now a world without the benefit of forests spilling with wildlife and rivers and oceans brimming with substance.

It is not that difficult to determine who the real savages are.

[clearcarbon]

"I think the name is a play on ‘a patchy web server’."

Developmental software can be very patchy.

[Vaduz]

Rename it Pontiac in memory of the car not the native American peoples.

You gotta love loopholes sometimes.

[MIA_eccl1212]

the pontiac was named after the pontiac indians... fwiw, a distinction without a difference

[RicocheT]

Native Americans gave us some cool names and nice jewelry.
In return, we gave them modern medicine, the internet, computers, cell phones, air travel, indoor plumbing, electricity, films, TV, radio, etc.

We also let them to sell cigarettes on their land which were cheaper as the tax was waived. Lots of non-natives go and buy those. Plus, they get to run casinos where grandma goes to spend most if her SSA check.

[Col Freeper]

Unless they used Smoke Signals they culturally appropriated the white man’s devices and methods.