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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.