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> The word master is too closely related to the word slave, a practice that goes against B12’s values.

Isn't this is a bit of over correction? Check out the synonyms of the word 'master' https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/master. It has lot of other meanings which does not mean 'master-slave'.

Also by this weird logic, the company mastercard should change their name.

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Apparently git copied the 'master' name from bitkeeper, where it was used in conjunction with 'slave' branches: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...

That’s not true.

Follow this link to the Twitter thread where the guy (Pete Baudris) who picked the term as used in Git, explains his reasoning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533096

That makes sense, but master recordings also have the concept of slave reels [1]. He probably wasn't aware of it, heck I only found out about it a few days ago

[1] https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/slave-reel/

Mastercard has a billion dollar ad budget. This guy's startup has to be more innovative to get press.

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