As you suggest, this is going to be a matter of personal taste. But to me, naming software after an oppressed people is prima facie gross. That kind of homage i

As you suggest, this is going to be a matter of personal taste. But to me, naming software after an oppressed people is prima facie gross. That kind of homage is patronizing by default. We don’t have a Jew filesystem or a Tutsi browser, however flattering they might be the minds of the founders. I think it’s mostly irrelevant that Gimp is an acronym. As an extreme case, if the initials of my descriptively named project happen to spell the N-word, people would be right to question my taste if I ran with it. Obviously “Apache” is not the same as the N-word, but you can see the point. It doesn’t matter if the connotations in my mind are only wholesome: I’m assigning to symbols that are already bound in outer contexts, and that’s dangerous in human culture. I’m not trying to be the political correctness police here. It’s not my job to get angry on other people’s behalf – I’m not Apache or physically disabled. But I would think very hard before calling a project anything like Apache or Gimp, and to me they seem at least as bad as Diaspora. Anyway, I do see how a reasonable person could hold your position.