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Linus Torvalds approved on Friday a new and more inclusive terminology for the Linux kernel code and documentation.
Going forward, Linux developers have been asked to use new terms for the master/slave and blacklist/whitelist terminologies.
The Linux team did not recommend any specific terms but asked developers to choose as appropriate.
The new terms are to be used for new source code written for the Linux kernel and its associated documentation.
The older terms, considered inadequate now, will only be allowed for maintaining older code and documentation, or "when updating code for an existing (as of 2020) hardware or protocol specification that mandates those terms."
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:37AM (2 children)
Linus is a Finn. They were always either slaves or Nazi. http://www.strangehistory.net/2015/02/24/good-swastikas-hakaristi/ [strangehistory.net]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:32PM (1 child)
Finland only temporarily allied with the Nazis during WWII because the Nazis were literally the only ones willing to stand up against the Soviets and help them out. They had just fought the Winter War where the Soviet Union was trying to conquer their entire country, alone.
Try actually reading about Finnish history around that time period sometime; you might learn something. They had just recently fought a civil war between nationalist and communist factions, too. Then they went on to be the only country bordering the Soviet Union to not be forced into the Warsaw Pact, *and* they did it without the economic help of the Marshall Plan they might have received if they had tried to join the West (because obviously the USSR would've promptly invaded)...after losing a significant percentage of their male population in the Winter/Continuation Wars. In fact there's an entire term to describe the tightrope act they walked during the Cold War: Finlandization [wikipedia.org].
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:34PM
Oh yeah: and that link you provided actually disproves your argument by saying their swastika use predated Nazism. Did you even read the page? You could fit the entire thing on one sheet of 8.5"x11".
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"