> >  In any case, telling your CUSTOMERS that you're going to ignore
> >  their feelings because they're illogical/stupid/liberal/PC/etc is
> >  just bad business.
>
> Of course, I'd change whatever they wanted. They're paying the bills,
> they can have whatever labels they want, whatever colour, whatever
> shape. Even little smiley faces dotting the I's too, and I'll curtsey, bow
> and doff my cap on delivery no matter how nuts I think they are. And I've
> had the occassional customer who's a sandwich short of a picnic, like
> we all have

Agreed.

However, Master/Slave describes certain things *very* well. In the SPI
protocol, the master *owns* the bus.

Perhaps Server/Client could be used.

But given the speed in which the US (including engineers) have jumped
on the Metric system (even though the US has been officially metric for
many years now), I don't expect such terms to change quickly.

> But on on the personal side, I think people get upset because it's often
> a small vocal pissy minority with ill-founded "issues". For example
> feminists who objected to "manual", even though the "man" content
> has nothing to do with "male". Paging Dr Phil, paging Dr Phil

From the initial article, it was a single person who was offended.

At some point people need to get real. Some of the terms we use are
pretty invasive in an industry. And there are some things I *won't*
change even though some people are offended by it. I try to be sensitive
to people's feelings, but we all have to realize that other people
may have different beliefs and have different reactions to the same thing.
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