old guy here: we never saw it as race related or anything even remotely related to that stuff, it was used for it's unambiguous meaning (notice how hard they are to replace in some use cases?)
However, now that I've been exposed to the idea, I can't get it out of my head and agree that it needs to change (but it still annoys me a little)
agree. for me this is just the works of politics being integrated in software development.
being PC does not solve anything with what we are doing as developers.
No, it doesn't solve anything related to developing software but developer's live on the same planet as everyone else and why die on this hill? It's not even an interesting hill to us (as developers).
Copyrighting a freaking API is a much more interesting hill. One that I'd be thrilled for the chance to fight Oracle to the death over :-)
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old guy here: we never saw it as race related or anything even remotely related to that stuff, it was used for it's unambiguous meaning (notice how hard they are to replace in some use cases?)
However, now that I've been exposed to the idea, I can't get it out of my head and agree that it needs to change (but it still annoys me a little)
(also, hello neighbor!)
agree. for me this is just the works of politics being integrated in software development.
being PC does not solve anything with what we are doing as developers.
No, it doesn't solve anything related to developing software but developer's live on the same planet as everyone else and why die on this hill? It's not even an interesting hill to us (as developers).
Copyrighting a freaking API is a much more interesting hill. One that I'd be thrilled for the chance to fight Oracle to the death over :-)