And with this, all the problems of humanity will be solved ... Irony aside, in this article we are not going to comment too much on the decision, that is something that we already did earlier this month, but to report that Linus Torvalds, the head of the linux kernel, has approved the change that will make terms such as "sir / master" no longer being used, "Slave" or "blacklist" both in your code and in your documentation.
This is already official, but what they have not decided yet is what words they will use instead. Torvalds, like those who suggested the change, says that there are many alternatives, but it does not cross anyone's head that each one uses what they see fit. In the coming weeks they should agree on what terms they are going to use; anything else would be chaos of biblical proportions, confusing, and a waste of time for developers.
Linux will use inclusive terminology for… what?
The change can be criticized more or less (I criticize it more than less), but it is also true that what Linux will do is join something that others started, like GitHub, behind the BLM movement of May. And make no mistake: this is not good at all. And it is not for several reasons.
This is nothing but censorship. If large companies like Linux do this, or worse, than others like L'Oréal remove words like "bleach" from its catalogHow will we have to speak the rest to be correct, not criticized or crucified? They contribute to censorship, an absurdity. Will dentists have to do the same? Because we would all like to have our teeth as white as possible, right? Well, I think I was overly racist with this comment.
There is also one other thing to keep in mind: will make changes to parts of the kernel that already exists And, although they assure that they will only do them when they are sure that it will not break anything, it is more than likely that some failure is launched and we users suffer until they repair something that is currently working. But hey, everything is to end the murders, world hunger, cancer and, who knows? Maybe they will also be able to end COVID.
I did not know that Torvalds was moving towards the progressive and lobbying movements. Disappointing, now the development of the kernel stops to please a handful of progressive snowflakers and whose change does not improve the functioning of the system, the religious progres snowflakers will come later so that the use of the word is changed in the kernel and in the documentation demons.
Absolutely ridiculous. The language is to be used, at this rate we will not be able to fart in front of a girl or a black man because it will be machismo or racism.
If we don't stop this stupidity, things will end badly, because I honestly start to feel harassed as a male and white. And I do not harass anyone !!
Please, what a subnormality, these people are crazy.
What a beautiful gesture coming from a serial abuser with his collaborators
In reality, those who are being racist are the ones who make those (stupid) changes because they are relating the word black to an ethnic group or race and in turn they are calling it something bad. Will they also change white? I mean, as we are. What's next, the color palette, inclusive new colors?
Politics ruins everything.
Greetings.
It's already ridiculous! This is getting into the easy game by turning us all into idiots. We would also have to stop saying robot = slave and a few others, at this level we are approaching what Einstein said "we will end up with the sticks."
Painful.
Since governments and corporations put their claws on the internet, everything went to waste and with so much that is sheltered in social disc networks, there are times those far away that networks more than progress they end up with knowledge
They are from psychiatric!
How stupid!
Torvalds is a smart person. There's no doubt. But throughout his life he has become more and more stupid. Perhaps it has always been only that with age he can hide it less and less. By the way, "black lists" have nothing to do with the black race. The "blacklists" or "black lists" have to do with darkness or death. It seems that some have appropriated the black color and are about to patent it. Will the name of the New Zealand rugby team have to be changed since it is called "All Blacks" and not all of its members are black? We are bad when we let ideologies intervene in technology. What's gonna be next? Feminist software? Gay software? ...
Hahahaha I love this author, keep it up (Y)
Inclusive software maybe. I don't know, now I wanted to rename my programs and add the word black, just to annoy.
How absurd, the word slave exists and in computing it is used not to discriminate, it has its reason for being, having to change it because a group of people do not like it is really absurd, it is pathetic.
Better we start to change the dictionary and eliminate words like stupid so that the stupid disappear, let's eliminate the word evil so that evil also disappears, hunger so that people no longer starve.
what a stupid thing