False dichotomy. Master/Slave is not exactly same as Master/Client. You can have a Master Unit with replicating or horizontally scaling Slaves and often the v

False dichotomy. Master/Slave is not exactly same as Master/Client. You can have a Master Unit with replicating or horizontally scaling Slaves and often the very same Master Unit is also a Server to one or multiple type of Clients. (NFS is a good example.) I think it is a pretty similar case to racism, if you want to stop it, "stop talking about it."