Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 18, 2020 10:03 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Loaded terms in free software by Cyberax
Parent article: Loaded terms in free software

Germans don't translate "master"/"slave" (or most other computing terms in fact).

From my PoV the problem is not "loaded terms" but "tech slang that doesn't mean anything and can't reasonably be translated". White/blacklists are another example of this because we don't have *that* strong cultural good/bad associations with these colors.
So renaming them to writer/reader or allow/deny respectively, is actually helpful.