Loaded terms in free software

Loaded terms in free software

Posted Jun 22, 2020 18:23 UTC (Mon) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Loaded terms in free software by milesrout
Parent article: Loaded terms in free software

No, they weren't. I can absolutely guarantee they were not

Wow. You don't know who I am, what my company was, what the software was, or who the client was and you "absolutely guarantee" that? You have very little credibility here.

It's demonstrably not useful.

Making a customer happier is IMO demonstrably useful. Making terms more precise and accurate is demonstrably useful. Showing sensitivity to others' feelings is IMO demonstrably useful.

If one does not agree with _everything_ that you stand for, then one is your _enemy_ and not _actually_ interested in justice.

You are making things up. I never called anyone my enemy. I simply said that in my experience, people who object to changing language to make it more inclusive are also unlikely to do more to address the issues the language change addresses, and that if changing technical terms puts someone off addressing those issues, then they likely had only a tenuous interest in those issues to begin with. You're the one heading off into hyperbole.

You cannot do this, because you cannot calculate the net change in happiness.

Of course. So you have to make your best estimate. My best estimate is that making language more inclusive leads to a net increase in happiness. If you disagree, then wrt to free software, you are perfectly free to fork the software according to your estimate of happiness increase.

Anyway, I don't think there's any point in continuing this conversation. You seem to be getting upset and that is not a desired outcome. I wish you the best, but respectfully continue to disagree with you.

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