Re:Hiawatha Webserver
by strogonoff on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:34AM
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I 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?
Re:Hiawatha Webserver
by arp242 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @08:51AM
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Fairly 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.
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