For those who desire more background, both on the motivation and on the breadth of organizations that are choosing to make this change:
[some links are about ending use of the M/S terms in electrical interfaces, which is also a thing that is being addressed] https://www.acm.org/diversity-inclusion/words-matter https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/technology/racist-computer-engineering-terms-ietf.html https://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg111965.html https://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/resolutions.html (search December 2020 in page) https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/blog/master-slave-and-the-fight-over-offensive-terms-in-computing-kate-conger-new-york-times-april-13-2021/ https://betterprogramming.pub/github-replacing-master-with-main-is-a-huge-win-for-inclusion-in-tech-bf517478275b https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/making-open-source-more-inclusive-eradicating-problematic-language https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-branch-name/ https://www.sparkfun.com/spi_signal_names https://www.eetimes.com/its-time-for-ieee-to-retire-master-slave/ https://www.oshwa.org/a-resolution-to-redefine-spi-signal-names/ https://cdm.link/2020/06/lets-dump-master-slave-terms/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/12/the-linux-kernel-has-now-adopted-inclusive-language/ Jeff _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
