On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Glenn Holmer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> >> Apache Subversion actually started as "Inversion" around December >> 1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we accepted >> "Subversion" as a rename. It had "version" in the name, and we *were* >> trying to subvert the CVS installations/community, so the name fit >> extremely well :-) >> >> It became "Apache Subversion" in February 2010. > > > Great story, thanks! > Agreed. On the name change topic, I had a professor who would greet people with "heaveno" because he believed the traditional greeting had satanic connotations. His attempts to make us use that did not go very far...
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