Moving away from master/slave is a trivial terminological change that people should make.
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Replying to @bnwlfsnNYT @bnwlfsn
I don't think it's either trivial nor necessary, but I know reasonable and nice people can disagree.
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I don't think anyone is questioning that "slave" means "slave". That's why this metaphor was adopted by engineers to begin with.
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To me this makes as much sense as arguing that it is murderous and violent to talk about killing a process. And for that matter, server/client is classist!
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This slippery slope shit doesn't make sense to me -- if a large group of people are made uncomfortable by a phrase isn't it kinder to just find an alternative?
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That is a very jingoistic, US-centric view of slavery
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