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Generally when you name something after a person / group of people, it's because you want to respect that thing, not disrespect that thing. Especially with Ope
by fastball 5y ago
Generally when you name something after a person / group of people, it's because you want to respect that thing, not disrespect that thing.
Especially with Open Source projects, where you are dumping lots of worker into something you will (on average) get little recognition or thanks for.
Said another way: if this project hadn't been named Hiawatha, you probably would not have done "a little digging", so on balance the naming of this project has increased the awareness for Native American tragedies. I certainly don't see a way in which this hurts Native Americans.
- strogonoff 5y agoI suspect to some degree it could be about the icon that goes along with the name[0], which might seem a bit of a caricature. Otherwise, since the project doesn’t seem to be directly referencing a tragedy and couldn’t reasonably have been named with the knowledge of the connection, how can this naming choice strike someone as inappropriate? [0] https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/images/hiawatha_logo.png https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/images/hiawatha_logo.png
- arp242 5y agoFairly certain that the name and logo are both derived from the "little Hiawatha" comics.[1] It seems they never really took off in the states, but they're fairly common in the weekly Donald Duck cartoons, at in the Netherlands when I was young. [1]: http://www.toonopedia.com/hiawatha.htm http://www.toonopedia.com/hiawatha.htm
- denton-scratch 5y agoI presume the native-american name is supposed to reference the Apache project. When I saw the name, that's what I assumed.