[Meme] IBM Has Paid ZDNet to Troll the Community

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz
• 2021-10-22 16:02:32 UTC
• Modified: 2021-10-22 16:02:32 UTC

These are all from ZDNet











Summary: Over the past few weeks ZDNet has constantly published courses with the word "master" in their headlines (we caught several examples; a few are shown above); years ago this was common, also in relation to IBM itself; clearly IBM thinks that the word is racially sensitive and offensive only when it's not IBM using the word and nowadays IBM pays ZDNet -- sometimes proxying through the Linux Foundation -- to relay this self-contradictory message whose objective is to shame programmers, Free software communities etc. (through guilt they can leverage more power and resort to projection tactics, sometimes outright slander which distracts)