Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 22, 2020 16:26 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Loaded terms in free software by milesrout
Parent article: Loaded terms in free software

> They want to remove uses of 'cop'.
"They" are also coming to abduct you in black helicopters and do experiments on you.

Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 22, 2020 16:28 UTC (Mon) by milesrout (subscriber, #126894) [Link]

See RuboCop. I'm not making it up or talking some conspiracy theory. A large number of people descended on a the GitHub repository for RuboCop and tried to bully the author into changing the name because 'Cop' is now considered offensive by these people.

Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 22, 2020 16:35 UTC (Mon) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]

As lovely -and illustrative - as this thread has been - it might be time to wind it up (literally)? Our esteemed editor does have to live with whatever we create here. I have no particular authority: Jon did already ask us politely once to cease and desist - could we all (myself included) bear to leave discussion here and move on to, say, (non-human) computers and their software again?