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RE: "master" and "slave" banned in Los Angeles County
Subject:RE: "master" and "slave" banned in Los Angeles County From:"Westbrook,Beth" <beth -dot- westbrook -at- dhs -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:13:17 -0600
This is not so unbelievable. The U.S. Army has had the same requirement for
their Family of Medium Technical Vehicles (trucks to us civilians) for many
years, well before I started on that project back in '98. They even went as
far as having the placards on the vehicles labeled with p.c. terms. From
what I had heard, it was all because of the complaints of one bureaucrat who
had personal issues with the standard terminology.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Byfield [mailto:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:31 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: "master" and "slave" banned in Los Angeles County
>
> For those with fond (and not so fond) memories of these discussions,
> this just in: the County of Los Angeles is asking hardware
> vendors not
> to use "master" and "slave" in their documentation:
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