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I don’t think it’s obvious. European culture has been dominated for 2000 years by the teachings of Jesus, who said: “Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles ex
by bcatanzaro 4y ago
I don’t think it’s obvious. European culture has been dominated for 2000 years by the teachings of Jesus, who said: “Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.”
The idea that rulers should serve their people is not unique to any civilization.
But my question is actually about the Apache Software Foundation: why would they be invested in long-standing values of Chinese civilization?
- brunoborges 4y ago> But my question is actually about the Apache Software Foundation: why would they be invested in long-standing values of Chinese civilization? It's just a project name. And the name was not chosen by ASF, rather accepted by them as per their terms: https://infra.apache.org/project-names.html https://infra.apache.org/project-names.html
- chillfox 4y agoPresumably because organisations are just groups of people and in this case a bunch of Chinese people contributed to the code. The top contributor is located in Beijing according to their GitHub profile.