Some organizations to retire non-inclusive tech terms like "master drive" and "slave drive"

Ah, so the corporate wokewashing is already starting. Heh. So much bravery. It’s rather absurd how predictable this is…not sure if this tops Microsoft/Github - and other companies that piled on like IBM and so on - for forcing everyone else to change from “master” to “main” (I guess the phrase “master copy” is now verboten? Talk about “centering” things on American culture, I guess? My understanding is the rest of the world did a collective shrug at this.) and give themselves gigantic claps on the back for making others do work, and scolding “pale males” in the open source world for supposed transgressions, real or perceived (but changing nothing substantive about their own corporations, naturally), but we’ll see how it plays out.

They might top Microsoft’s actions if they manage to blame-shift this onto some powerless “pale males” putting in their own time on something (or getting paid rather average salaries) all while doing nothing substantive about their corporate culture. Nike is maybe second in the running for high-profile absurdist wokewashing…

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