Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoBecause I don’t want to be forced to adapt by others.
We are all forced all the time to follow social norms. Short of moving to a cabin in the woods, this is inescapable, for better or worse. In this master/main debate it seems like we can make some people happy with minimal cost. In the end it is a tiny irrelevance, when compared to other norms being changed.