[xdennis]

> "Master" didn't really make sense. It was supposed to mean one thing that controls another thing (the slave), but nothing ever works out that way in reality.

I really hate how people pretend to be stupid and not know that master means a lot of different things: "animal owner", "an expert", "a tradesman", "postgraduate degree", "original", and many others (including dated definitions). Wiktionary lists 21 definitions, only one of which is slave owner.

[shye]

And one of those I use to call certain men in my life, and so find it unprofessional to use with software.

[spartanatreyu]

> Wiktionary lists 21 definitions, only one of which is slave owner.

It lists two which references "slave".

Definition 2 references slave owning, but that's irrelevant to the actual discussion here.

This thread is talking about definition 17:

> (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source. > > Synonyms: coordinator, primary > Antonyms: secondary, slave, worker

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> I really hate how people pretend to be stupid and not know that master means a lot of different things

"Master" meaning different things is exactly the problem.

Even if we limit ourselves specifically to definition 17, it still means too many things. It's overloaded to the point that it doesn't accurately describe the systems where it's used.