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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by Mountain_Skies on Monday January 13, 2025 @06:08AM (#42682226)
It's interesting that so much of this comes from academia but they exempt themselves from so much of it. The moral panic over the use of the word "master" in any context somehow turned a blind eye to master's degrees. Academics felt their usage was ok by their own ever shifting relative criteria that everyone else is expected to constantly contort themselves to follow. Very convenient how that works for them.
Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by djur on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:31AM (#42683760)
People (mistakenly, I believe) thought that "master branch" was derived from the disk and database "master"/"slave" metaphor, which had started being eliminated years earlier. "Master branch" was also a fairly recent coinage (within my career) limited to a few specific tools, so changing it wasn't moving mountains.