Am 23.02.2024 schrieb Arno Lehmann <a...@its-lehmann.de>: > If there's a single person in the world who feels existing > terminology to hurt them, I consider my usage of such terms.
Everytime there is somebody who doesn't like something. I mostly care about technology and not the feelings a small amount of users has. It is free software - everybody can create a fork and change the stuff. > If it makes one person feel better, I think I did something good. I simply don't care about those feelings. > If it makes others feel worse, I have to balance arguments. Arguments > such as "it was always thus" or "it's too much effort" are not strong > ones. The amount of work needed to change it is of course a really strong argument because there need to be people who are willing to change it and spend their time on it. The technical gain of that is exactly zero, it doesn't solve any bug, it doesn't add a feature, it doesn't make it easier to use, it simply makes some tiny amount of users feel better. > As it happens, I prefer being called "woke" above being rude. Feel free to do so. I like the freedom in free software, so everybody can create software without "problematic" terms. > Oh, and tech and culture can not be separated, but that's probably > also a loaded topic. It cannot be completely separated because there is a language that is being used and that language is part of a political discussion. Although, it doesn't mean that a developers needs to change something.
