Microsoft-owned GitHub is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'

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.

Software companies had already been working to drop such references, but worldwide demonstrations organised to protest systemic racism have introduced a newfound sense of urgency.The Microsoft-owned coding site GitHub is dropping the term"master" from its systems as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to hold companies accountable., GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said the company - which is used by 50 million developers - is changing the term to a neutral one.

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