Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made

Keep in mind that "раб" has the same stem. So's "ребенок", for that matter (and yes, it really used to imply a very low social status of child in question). Original form appears to have been a cognate of "orphan", with the usual metathese of word-initial vowel+R...

All this stuff is missing the point, though - there are tons of potentially offensive terminology that only utter twits would try to remove. Remember the Jesux hoax and morons who'd taken it seriously? "Slave" has nasty associations, indeed, but so does "demon" (and, for real fundies, "daemon" as well). And let's recall such syscalls as kill(2) - if _that_ doesn't have unpleasant associations, I don't know what does. So's "orphan", for that matter...