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It upsets people because of the association with slavery, and it's trivial to use different terminology.

What about masterpiece, master's degree, skill mastery, etc? Seems like an complete ban on the word is the intended outcome.

IMHO master meaning mastery over a field will still be fine.

Master meaning owning someone is the usage under review.

From the article: "In programming speak, “master” refers to the main version of code that controls the “slaves,” or the replicas."

Nevermind that the master copy doesn't control anything at all, it is a master copy of the repository, nothing more.