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Reminds me of poe's law... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law It could be a parody or not, but until the writer states so, you cant be sure.

From my point of view, its a pretty bad idea. Master / Slave is used in nearly every system ranging from basic integrated circuits using a bus (SPI, I2C, ...) up to multi cluster database systems. It has a clearly defined function and and everyone in tech knows what it means. It doesnt matter if youre from USA, England, Germany oder Iran. A master/slave system has a clearly defined behavior.

Trying to bring feelings into the clean technical world it one of the most stupid things i can think of. In this case, it only affects the documentation of a project, but in other cases, trying to be politically correct has destroyed lifes of people. http://www.wired.com/2013/03/richards-affair-and-misogyny-in...




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