This is a political approach--"I don't like one aspect of what an organization does, so I will harass anyone who associates with them in any way."
It's pointless in this case because the NSA is not subject to such grassroots political pressure. Their sigintel teams do not give a shit if you use Accumulo or if Apache hosts it. Harassing Apache will have zero effect on Prism and related programs, but will harm Apache, which is a known-good organization.
If you want to change things at the NSA, the political pressure points are in Congress and the White House. Not Apache.
It's exactly Apache's known-good status that makes it a point of leverage. Surely the pragmatic thing to do is to put pressure on organizations that you think may respond, rather than organizations that you know will not. I really don't understand why everyone is saying that Apache's hosting of this project is irrelevant and useless to the NSA. Would you say the same about other projects that Apache hosts?
It's pointless in this case because the NSA is not subject to such grassroots political pressure. Their sigintel teams do not give a shit if you use Accumulo or if Apache hosts it. Harassing Apache will have zero effect on Prism and related programs, but will harm Apache, which is a known-good organization.
If you want to change things at the NSA, the political pressure points are in Congress and the White House. Not Apache.