RE: Replacing "master" and "slave" terminology

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Karen Mulholland wrote:
 
> What would you call the unit that controls the other one? 

Master.

> What would you call the one that is under control of the first one?

Slave.

Why are you and your engineer made queasy by perfectly good English
words being used in a way completely consistent with their meanings?
Were you, the engineer, or members of your audience ever masters or
slaves, and thus feel awkward about the concept? Or is it just that you
embrace the concepts of collective guilt and "the sins of the fathers"?

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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