[masterponomo]

There was a similar issue some years ago, where a popular author on Oracle PL/SQL began polluting his technical books with politically-charged text in the examples. In this case, though, the "trigger" was not something so innocuous as terminology such as master-slave. The author's justification here: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly//news/feuerstein_10...

[acjohnson55]

I'd hesitate to describe master-slave as innocuous to begin with.

[masterponomo]

Understood. I meant to make a distinction between commonly accepted terminology, and free-form text where the author chooses to make controversial statements. And yes I'm aware of the existing controversy over use of master-slave in technology documentation.