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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts

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bd139:
Do they even matter though? I mean it’s a free market. You don’t need to even give a shit about them existing. Which is exactly what I would expect everyone to do if they forced people’s hands.

Simon:
I had never heard of the open source hardware whatever they are. I mean who are they? who cares?

magic:
Open Sores is a cult :scared:
And it's mostly a left-leaning cult, so no surprise.

They really have similar mentality and talking points to the ultra radical far-left, if you think about it:
- the world is screwed by profit seeking
- we will change the world
- here's ten reasons why logic and facts prove that our model is superior
- we are winning and you can't stop us
- if you really want to make money, you will, but only as much as you deserve

I sincerely encourage everyone to consider hating Open Sores and recognizing that Free Software (or Free Hardware if you wish) is the only truth and Richard Matthew Stallman is our prophet.

There is still a bunch of crazies around FSF, but at least they are a different sort of crazy. They do this shit because they want it to exist, not because they have been radicalized by some Internet nutjob claiming that this is a technically superior development methodology, despite all evidence to the contrary.


--- Quote from: Simon on July 01, 2020, 07:23:55 am ---I left the green party when the leader issued an apology for not including any black women in her list of women that should run the country......

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You could have seen it coming when they made a woman their leader in the first place :P

Simon:

--- Quote from: magic on July 01, 2020, 09:02:49 am ---

--- Quote from: Simon on July 01, 2020, 07:23:55 am ---I left the green party when the leader issued an apology for not including any black women in her list of women that should run the country......

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You could have seen it coming when they made a woman their leader in the first place :P

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not really, we had a female leader of the conservative right wing party that did not feel the need to make a list of women that she hypothetically would want to see running the country. I don't know why Caroline Lucas who to be fair is generally right about a lot of things felt the need to decide for herself who should make up a hypothetical un-elected government and why she chose to be sexist and only pick women at which point someone took the equally pathetic stance to accuse her or racism for not including any black women at which point the whole hypothetical exercise became real news.

The problem with the left is that think every is intelligent and will listen to reason, the right realize that there are not very many intelligent people and so pander to the ignorant masses and win elections.

This is why i would now just tell people spouting rubbish that they are spouting rubbish and should shut up rather than trying to debate their stupid ideas because they are too stupid to have a debate.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Simon on July 01, 2020, 08:52:46 am ---I had never heard of the open source hardware whatever they are. I mean who are they? who cares?

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A bunch of people who decided that use of the OSHW name and logo needed to be controlled by them. They also organise the OSWH conference each year. Then they added official "certification" of OSHW project where they give you an "official" number that you can put on your product that it meets the OSHW principles as endorsed by them.
It hasn't been hugely successful from what I gather.
This is why it would not surprise one one bit if they eventually refuse to certify any product that uses the master/slave terms.
I'm willing to bet that if you submit a product for certification using these terms then you'll get a nice email "encouraging" you to modify you project to remove them. Will be interesting when someone refuses to do this, but otherwise meets the OSWH terms.
They have effectively added politics into the OSWH community where many would not that sort of stuff to intrude.

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