They gave grants to change master/slave terminology in documentation. After that, I can't donate and assume the won't wizz away my money on some stupid endeavor.
We had already gone through every variation of “master” and “slave” and had code using it to describe the various relationships.
“Slave” was a worker whose behavior was exclusively and directly defined by the “master”, “minions” had more autonomy, etc.
Eventually the terminology expanded and lost all sense and reason. Just our own in-house jargon.
If we could do it over we would have chosen something different, but we were fighting for solvency at that point.
COVID really messed stuff up.