Legends Come to Life
We avoided it at first because it sounded too much like an urban legend, but a report that Los Angeles County has barred IT contractors from using the terms "Master/Slave" on their computer equipment in order to preserve cultural sensitivity appears to be true.
The estimable Snopes Web site tracked a memo from Los Angeles’ Internal Services Department earlier this month telling contractors to "ensure that any equipment, supplies or services that are provided to County departments do not possess or portray an image that may be construed as offensive or defamatory in nature."
One such offense is apparently use of the computing term Master/Slave, which Snopes says is a "term commonly used in computing (and related industries) to describe the unidirectional control of one device or process by another."
Things are worse than we thought.
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