Dne 17. 06. 20 v 2:57 Leyne, Sean napsal(a):
If much larger projects than ours can make these changes, I don't see why we shouldn't be doing the same.
When I was a kid and came up with such classic "Bandwagon Fallacy", my mother asked me "If others would go and jump off the cliff, does it mean you should do the same?".
Removing the "master/slave" terms from IT vocabulary will not magically liberate the HW and SW from being slaves (btw, when we extended the human rights to machines?), neither it will help to remove human slavery from our lives. Removing terms always only hides the problem under the surface so it can live long and prosper there undisturbed (which is probably the point of those who fuel this "movement" with money and media coverage).
It also has well documented trajectory. It always starts with common good that justifies first small, then bigger and then total changes, and ends with pitchforks and bonfires for those who don't follow. As we already seen people "burned" out from their lives and jobs for any overstepping, and advanced to tore-down the statues phase, the change of words is just a prelude for burning books.
Those who can't learn from history are doomed to repeat the lesson through direct experience.
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