On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:12:07PM +0200, Léa Gris wrote: > This is what is happening here. Now they just ask for mundane changes and > will probably accept the patch. They will come again and ask for inclusive > grammar, then come again and ask for removal of anything that is even > remotely related to slavery (Example: master-slave database replication), > racial discrimination (please remove blacklist and replace by > exclusion-list), sexual assault or anything even remotely related. They will > not give-up until everything is expunged of every trace of anything until > total destruction or what's left is a bland ghostwith nothing left of > history and everyone has fought each-other.
Then in 20 years time, when a different set of words will be deemed unacceptable, repeat the whole exercise. Maybe demand changes sooner as some words are deemed bad in other languages/cultures/... > Then they will vanish and destroy other community, other history. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html #include <std_disclaimer.h>