"As programmers, our day to day work doesn’t typically present us with
opportunities to take a stand against racism. Situations like this are
opportunities to be the change we want to see. When you get that
opportunity and you don’t act, or even worse, you defend the status quo."
That quote was from a 2018 blog:
https://blog.carbonfive.com/problematic-terminology-in-open-source/
According to Wikipedia, Master/Slave was changed by IBM,[8]
Microsoft,[9] Engine Yard,[10] Amazon Web Services/Amazon Relational
Database Service,[11] as well as in Python,[12] Django,[13][14]
Drupal,[15] CouchDB,[16] and Redis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Terminology_concerns
The creator of Redis initially resisted the change of master/slave, and
he received many "colorful" responses to his view at that time, which
are worth reading:
http://antirez.com/news/122
Eventually, he decided to make the change, and also received many
"interesting" responses:
https://github.com/redis/redis/issues/5335
Arguing for or against the change in terms, would have been useful when
it was originally proposed, years ago. But since the terms are being
changed in the software world, arguing now is pointless. Things are
changing, whether people like it or not.
The year 2000 didn't bring changes that people expected. But the year
2020, certainly has.
