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Linux Team Approves New Terminology, Bans Terms Like 'Blacklist' and 'Slave'

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the ban-hammer dept.

mrpg writes:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-team-approves-new-terminology-bans-terms-like-blacklist-and-slave/

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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Linux kernel will no longer use terms 'blacklist' and 'slave'

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:37AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:37AM (#1021664)

    Because it doesn't end with this. IT NEVER ENDS. As soon as you give in with this small thing, the goalposts get moved l, and the professionally outraged find a NEW THING to exert their control over you.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:49AM (#1021709)

    that's pretty much it

    i spent almost almost 10 years engaged in nazi appeasement and it destroyed my sanity

    they will never be happy until capitalism eliminates inequality

    capitalism may eliminate racism and sexism on its own, and then they will find some other explanation for the systemic behavior of capitalism

    nobody in which ever marginalized group is ever helped in any material way, because that would call austerity and ultimately class society into question