While 'get woke, go broke' is a trite phrase used as a joke in certain political circles, there is an amount of objective truth to it.
Look what happened.
Somewhere along the way (I think it was Mozilla or freebsd someone correct me) decided to re-engineer their code of conduct to be all expansive and to legislate down to minute detail, behavior and interactions so minorities (primarily sexual ones) can control other people's language/ and actions but ultimately control their thoughts as well. They were scorned by some but embraced by a majority of others who thought of themselves as better.
The problem with creating more rules is that the number of rule breakers exponentially increase as well as the expense to enforce the rules and bring compliance in line as well. The expense can be measured in both time and money.
But as alluded to, the rules were not meant to simply encourage polite and collegial behavior among colleagues. But instead the rule embracers used them to show how virtuous their organization was (as opposed to the lowly scorned knuckledragging heathens that can't afford to be as virtuous). Hence they manage to elevate themselves to be above all in the shiny heavens.
We go through life stumbling around everybody does and your toe will get stepped on and people will step on your toe. That's just life. It's unavoidable. And we can try to handle when we do in polite ways.
The problem is when you elevate yourself by using rules to do so, you have to answer to the rules you made. The more you make the more costly it can be sometimes in surprising and unpredictable ways. You know the phrase "don't make promises you can't afford to keep?" That's essentially what people are unknowingly doing by being rule embracers/writers.
Hence "the go broke" part.
Sorry Apache organization. Even if you have a massive bank account the amount of time suck in dealing with a name change is legion. And it's going to suck precious time away from volunteers that do not want to climb to the shiny virtuous place above. They just want to get code done. But now they're gonna get dragged along with your journey which actually feels more like being dragged down not up!
My educated guess is that the Native American coders knows this actually. A local college uses a name associated with the local Native Americans and they give away free scholarships and cash stipends to the namesake tribe, adjusted with cost of living I'm sure. It's a win-win you'd think.
Ultimately, that's what people really want. It's human nature *which stretches across race*. You want to look virtuous? Now pay up!
But I got a secret. The Native American coders don't have a leg to stand on - for more than reason. For multiple reasons actually. First, they didn't oppose the trademark filing back in 1999. They had their chance to argue 'cultural appropriation' to a sympathetic liberal bureaucracy back then.
Maybe the reason they didn't is because the name did not come from the tribe, but rather from a government entity. The Native American name they call their differing tribes is entirely different. The name 'Apache' comes from the Spanish conquistadors who called people in the present day southwest 'Apachu de Nabajo' (see Wikipedia). So literally, the 'Apache' are ultimately 'culturally appropriating' the name from the Spanish!!
One might argue that it's not their fault they're called that. And that's exactly right it's not!! There's no fault in 'culturally appropriating' anything. Everyone does it one way or another. It's like me being English heritage being angry that a candy maker is making money from a candy called 'English Toffee'. They need to stop that!! /s
But hey, we got to drag ourselves back to woke-land now!
One might say that well the Native Americans have been on their lands since the beginning of time and therefore deserve special treatment. But that's not really true either. The people known as Apache actually arrived from Canada in the southwest only a few hundred years before the Mayflower arrived in 1620 a.d. perhaps as late as 1500 a.d. So they're migrants just as much as the Pilgrims were! Coincidentally the Spanish started calling the Native Americans Apache about 1620 - the same time the Pilgrims arrived!
I by no way mean disrespect to the Dene (one the names that the tribes in that area actually call themselves) but I respectfully disagree with the Native American coders on their insistence to ownership of a word that does not originate from them in the first place!!
I had a neighbor who thought I did damage to their property. Their demands were too excessive and I turned it all over to the insurance company and they ended up getting nothing from me. Ultimately the Apache foundation will need to do the same thing. Have an attorney write them a polite letter.
This is ham-fisted woke grift from a bunch of people who happen to be thought of as Native Americans. You'd think that being coders they'd might know better!
And if Apache wants to change their name, they should change their name to 'Mayflower'. A name that describes a noble migrant people who fought extremely difficult conditions in a new land and survived.
And I won't bitch about it 'culturally appropriating' my heritage either!!!
Oh, Apache, simplify if not get rid of the code of conduct. Have a simple policy to deal with detrimental behavior. If Google can get rid of "do no evil" you can do the same as well.