· GitHub, the world's largest site for hosting open-source software, is working to replace the terms "master" and "slave" in code, as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to have a widespread ripple effect.
· In programming speak, "master" refers to the main version of code that controls the "slaves," or the replicas.
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Microsoft-owned GitHub is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' (MSFT)
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