Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 17, 2020, 07:27 UTC
Message-ID: <87lfkm9mob.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1109121592306913@mail.yandex.ru>

Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> writes:

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> 16.06.2020, 13:31, "Alex Smith" <alexsmith@gmail.com>:
>> Whether or not any patch would be accepted, the damage is already done.
>> From now on, people will judge you if you dare to use the name
>> "master" anywhere
>> and this is incredibly sad. These people are literally bullying us into
>> submission in the name of political correctness where no harm was actually
>> done.
>>
>> This sickens me.
>
> I guess their next move might be to force sound engineers to rename
> master channel and derived term "mastering" into something more
> politically correct.

There is even better target:

$ cd src/linux $ find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -i '(master)\|(slave)' | wc -l 40506

... and then they'll finally be on the right track to win the war against it.

-- Sergey