GitHub abandons ‘master’ and ‘slave’ terms to avoid row

ByJerome Smith
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050955

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The world’s biggest site for software developers is abandoning decades-old coding terms to remove references to slavery, such as master and slave.

GitHub Chief Executive Nat Friedman said the firm is working on changing the term “master”

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