On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:57:21PM +0000, Evan Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 07:17:06PM +0200, Toerless Eckert wrote: > > b) Changing language so no piece of computer/network hardware/software should > > feel offended is not necessary. > > c) Being culturally offended on behalf of a computer/network entity is > > virtue signalling. > > If you believed that the intention of the change was to avoid hurting the > feelings of computers, as opposed to the people using those computers, > then let me gently suggest you may have missed the point. Do i qualify to demand a rename of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tree if i have an appropriate BMI and feel offended or do i have to work in a Data Center ? Or can i simply demand it with the argument that obesity kills a lot more people than slavery, and the richest companies on the planet are promoting it by their choice of network technologies. Cheers Toerless > -- > Evan Hunt -- each@xxxxxxx > Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
