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Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jun 21 14:44:08 UTC 2020


On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:38 AM Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:

> On 2020-06-21 15:47, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> >   What's more clear about calling something that is called Master Boot
> > Record something else ?
> >   What's next ? Will you contact the BBC so they redub all Doctor Who
> > episode where "The Master" appears ? Contact Disney so the release a
> > new version of Tron where the Master Control Program is call the Main
> > Control Program ?
>
> Hi Manu,
>
> I didn't know BBC made such episodes.
>
> And no, I won't contact BBC nor Disney about this.
>
> The point here is that the Master's Boot Record may be very badly
> perceived by some people. Do I need to explain that?
>


Please revert. Another part if the guidance was that industry standard
terms should be used until the industry renames them. This makes FreeBSD
unique for no good reason.

There also is no slave boot record.

Master here comes from the same place as master key.

Warner

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