Computer terminology and political correctness

From: J.C. Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Tue Nov 25 15:57:57 2003

And a rather excellent reply to the idiots in charge:

<URL: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=86980&cid=7553255 >

        --jc

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 16:41 pm, R. D. Davis wrote:
> Did anyone hear that some bureaucrat, in charge of purchasing for the
> city of Los Angles, has sent a letter to all of the city's suppliers
> of equipment, asking them not to use the "insenstive" words "master"
> and "slave" in relation to equipment sold to the city? Maybe this
> means that there will be a glut of politically incorrect surplus
> computer equipment and documentation available there. Of course,
> they'd probably recycle it into scrap so as to not risk offending
> purchasers... too bad they don't just recycle the political
> correctness into something else.
Received on Tue Nov 25 2003 - 15:57:57 GMT

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