Microsoft Helping Out in Making the Linux Kernel Language More Inclusive

Re:Microsoft Helping Out in Making the Linux Kernel Language... by gotoeleven on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:38PM (#39888275)

I thought this stuff was mocked out of existence. They can't even use non-euphemistic language to describe the euphemization. "Make the language more inclusive" well its not more inclusive of masters and slaves. And the replacements, "controller and client" or "controller and target", are strictly less apt. Just dumb.

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Re:Microsoft Helping Out in Making the Linux Kernel Language... by civilized on Sunday March 31, 2024 @05:40PM (#39888294)

Target? Terrifying warfare connotations. Client? Smacks of historical patterns of subjugation (client states of empires).

Where does this end? Are we to become linguistically homeless, evicted from our verbal environment every time someone finds a way to be uncomfortable with it?

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Re:Microsoft Helping Out in Making the Linux Kernel Language... by thfuran on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:02PM (#39889829)

I'm uncomfortable with this line of questioning and demand that you cease immediately.

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