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To understand how much people care, it must be expressed in dollar terms. For example, you could ask the people who wrote the article to contribute to a fund th
by fidgewidge 4y ago
To understand how much people care, it must be expressed in dollar terms. For example, you could ask the people who wrote the article to contribute to a fund that will maintain renamed forks of various Apache software projects. If their inclination to fundraise and donate isn't there, we can infer they don't care very much relative to the caring of the people who would actually have to do the work.
- abirch 4y agoWe could easily flip this and ask how much money the Apache Software Foundation is willing to pay the Apache tribes to use their name.
- fidgewidge 4y agoThey don't own their name, no more than random Americans own the word "American" or random Brits own the word "English".
- andrewaylett 4y agoHence "care" rather than anything to do with ownership or compulsion. Just because being kind isn't mandatory doesn't mean it's forbidden. There can be social implications of course. In the same way that I can't compel people to call me "Andrew", I'll notice if someone goes out of their way to give me the wrong name after they've been asked nicely to. And so will others around me. That's not a big deal if it's someone I know cares for me, but if it's someone who used to bully me who is trying to convince me that they've changed then it's going to make it harder for me to believe they will act any differently from before.