Inferring doesn’t mean the same thing as implying. They’re kind of complementary, like borrowing versus lending.
The OP may have been implying something, but it looks like you’re inferring something (which may or may not what they’re implying; I don’t care enough to parse that out).
The ASF has renamed their conferences from ApacheCon to Community over Code, so foundation leadership seems receptive to moving away from the Apache name.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the name is changed in the next couple of years.
The name was originally just a silly joke, since it was “a patchy web server” (as it was an open source web server abandoned by the original author, but kept going by a community sharing patches to fix bugs and add features).
To be fair, Avril Lavigne signed away the movie rights to Sk8ter Boi to Paramount in 2003, and we still don’t have that movie.
Selling IP rights into another medium is not the same as a guarantee that it will be developed (though it is a first step).
As a maintainer on an open source project, I assume the sticks are PRs coming in right before code freeze, right? Right?!