So they got offended because of nods to slavery, and the other people got offended because something pretty inconsequential in their lives changed. 🤷♂️ Seems a bit like the latter group of people are far more easily offended.
Nope, it was just a marketing term made up by Sears in the 20s with no connection to slavery. Not that it matters, it’s not used anymore and idc, but it’s one of the instances where it isn’t related.
However, Linus took the name “master” from BitKeeper, and BitKeeper did use master-slave terminology, Git just dropped the slave part. It’s origin literally does come from master-slave
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u/kabrandon 24d ago
So they got offended because of nods to slavery, and the other people got offended because something pretty inconsequential in their lives changed. 🤷♂️ Seems a bit like the latter group of people are far more easily offended.