It is bad b/c it has an actual and real impact on people today, it get's in the way of them being able to work/create most efficiently, it contributes to people not even going into technical fields. The document actually talks to these points with some references. Just b/c we have done things one way in the past does not mean we shouldn't strive to do better in the future. Thanks, Chris. > On Jul 24, 2020, at 2:54 AM, Masataka Ohta <mohta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Carrick Bartle wrote: > >> I think we can all agree that slavery is bad, right? >> So why should we even allude to it in technical documents? > > That is not a valid argument against some terminology, > especially because it should have been agreed so at > the time when the term of "master slave" was originally > coined. > > That is, we have long established agreement to use words > to be considered bad by many for technical terms. > > Masataka Ohta >
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