Reply to post: Re: What are we going to do about the embedded devices?

Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and others back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’ to change nasty tech terms

Colin Bull 1
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Re: What are we going to do about the embedded devices?

"These changes are typically invisible to the end users anyway, so why are you so resistive to this?"

Because these are changes that are not needed and are just about some prats with nothing better to do with their time.

Black and white are colours and their use to describe good or bad things has nothibg to do with skin colour but to do with night and day , light and dark.

Why should anyone be offended by the use of master slave to describe a relationship of some kind. Who can be offended? Hundreds of years ago african traders were capturing people off of the coast of Devon and Cornwall and enslaving them. I do not see why their ancestors would be offended by this term.

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