Hi!
> +On the triviality of replacing words
> +
> +
> +The African slave trade was a brutal system of human misery deployed at
> +global scale. Some word choice decisions in a modern software project
> +does next to nothing to compensate for that legacy. So why
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:41 PM Kees Cook wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:02:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Recent events have prompted a Linux position statement on inclusive
> > terminology. Given that Linux maintains a coding-style and its own
> > idiomatic set of terminology here is
On 04/07/2020 23:02, Dan Williams wrote:
> Recent events have prompted a Linux position statement on inclusive
> terminology. Given that Linux maintains a coding-style and its own
> idiomatic set of terminology here is a proposal to answer the call to
> replace non-inclusive terminology.
>
> Cc: J
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 06:55:05AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:02:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > +Non-inclusive terminology has that same distracting effect which is why
> > +it is a style issue for Linux, it injures developer efficiency.
>
> I'm personally thinki
Sending the wrong message
===
I'm pretty sure everybody agrees that being inclusive is more than just
using the right words. Being truly inclusive means not caring about the
origin, birth, age, sex, skin color (amongst other things) at all. This
means not judging people bas
On 5 Jul 2020, at 0:55, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:02:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> +Non-inclusive terminology has that same distracting effect which is
>> why
>> +it is a style issue for Linux, it injures developer efficiency.
>
> I'm personally thinking that for a no
Hi guys,
do you think playing with words will really get you anywhere
or help anyone?
> +On the triviality of replacing words
You're not going to make white black, make a native African
white, or fix age-old crimes by this "triviality".
You're only going to sort of please those who actua
Hi Willy,
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 13:55, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I'm personally thinking that for a non-native speaker it's already
> difficult to find the best term to describe something,
I'm a nobody in the kernel world but this point made me think.
I'm a native English speaker but I don't live
You have it all wrong. The black in blacklist refers to women,
as in the yin and the yang. The white refers to men: a constructive
force. (While the women are destructive in society: always pitting
the whitelist (men) against each-other, because said list didn't
obey the blacklist (where women bel
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:02:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> +Non-inclusive terminology has that same distracting effect which is why
> +it is a style issue for Linux, it injures developer efficiency.
I'm personally thinking that for a non-native speaker it's already
difficult to find the best
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:02:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Recent events have prompted a Linux position statement on inclusive
> terminology. Given that Linux maintains a coding-style and its own
> idiomatic set of terminology here is a proposal to answer the call to
> replace non-inclusive te
On 7/4/20 1:02 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Recent events have prompted a Linux position statement on inclusive
> terminology. Given that Linux maintains a coding-style and its own
> idiomatic set of terminology here is a proposal to answer the call to
> replace non-inclusive terminology.
>
> Cc: Jon
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