why do so many open source software programs have racist names
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SINISTER TECH GIANTS: we're gonna make a webserver, what do we call it? How about... Web Server? Or just Server? OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: Apache! Of course! SINISTER TECH GIANTS: oooookay... how about a print and message service? We're going with... DAV OSS: SAMBA!
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I noticed that too, with Apache. I think you’re confusing “samba” with Sambo? There’s another one that’s fortunately not very common, a build script generator named “gyp”. Created by Google.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GYP_(software) …
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Replying to @jhamby @BootlegGirl
Recently, I came across a page for Google’s V8 project about respectful code and not using terms like “whitelist” and “blacklist”, or “crazy”. https://v8.dev/docs/respectful-code … The only one I thought was iffy was “redline” since there had so many car terms. I guess because of redlining?
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Replying to @jhamby @BootlegGirl
There are definitely warring factions within Google as far as political correctness though. Having a build system named “GYP”, which parts of Firefox also use, was a real head-scratcher to me. I don’t even feel right typing it.
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Replying to @jhamby @BootlegGirl
I gotta imagine the GYP thing was unintentional, right? Named by people who were completely unaware of what is, to be fair, a fairly rare slur?
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Replying to @dulcedejae @jhamby
I knew it was a slur in the US at age 7? I figured it out from context when it showed up in an old movie, no one even had to tell me? I dunno
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @jhamby
I don't think I ever registered its existence until I saw someone literally explaining it on Tumblr. And I've yet to hear it actually used in either media or real life
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This probably differs a lot by country, I used to hear it all the time as a kid in the US
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Huh. That's weird, isn't it? I didn't think the US even had a significant Roma presence
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I think it's because they're a much smaller population in the US that there's less awareness of it as an ethnic slur A lot of Americans will actively defend the idea that it's become just a generic word for a "rootless person"
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So it's just used in the same context as "gypsy" but with two fewer letters?
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Oh no "Gypsy" is the noun, "gyp" is a verb meaning "to cheat, swindle, shortchange or take unfair advantage of"
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