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ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference to a painful experience'

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Re: Y'know, the funny thing about the word "slave" ...

>You may want to check your sources.

Funny how people think "slavery" only means a particular facet of the 17th to 18th-century trans-Atlantic trade, totally overlooking the fact that slavery has been part of human history for millenia..

It was very heartening to see the rainbow being taken back during lockdown (as part of the support the NHS) to mean something more than LGBT...

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