Master, Slave & the Fight Over Offensive Terms in Computing
The debate is still raging
"...The pushback didn’t surprise Ms. Knodel, who had proposed similar changes in 2018 without gaining traction. The engineering community is “quite rigid and averse to these sorts of changes,” she said. “They are averse to conversations about community comportment, behavior — the human side of things.”
Posted: April 13, 2021, 8:49 AM