----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Warren" <aiw@CYPRESS.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT]: Un-frigging-believable


> If you can make a customer happier by doing something
> as simple as changing two words, why wouldn't you?

I have to agree with this, pretty strongly in fact.

>  Besides, Master/Slave can usually be replaced without loss of
>  meaning, and in fact, the replacement can often be MORE
>  meaningful.  PC hard disk drives, for instance, are more
>  accurately described as Primary/Secondary than Master/Slave,
>  right?

Unfortunately, no.  The implication you are making here is that my secondary
drive, which contains my hard earned data, is somehow less important than my
primary drive, which contains stupid Windows which I can reinstall
(relatively) easily.  The drives aren't primary or secondary, they simply
play different roles in the communication.

Changes to terms like that can't be made lightly.  To change the terms in
all places they are used without introducing more ambiguity would require
making each change carefully (i.e. differently) or simply changing to
something relatively meaningless in the context.  So changing to
government/taxpayer would be a lot less risky than primary/secondary.  (I
actually like Hilary/Bill better, but the customer in this case would simply
come unglued).

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