>Was the variable name an accurate description of what it was used for or not? If it was, let it go. If it wasn't suggest a better one.
>Opensource software is not the place to enforce your views on society on someone else.
While I completely agree, if you read the article he did suggest an alternative and submitted a patch.
Rather than the patch being rejected, he got banned from the community.
See below. Not a good look, but we only have one side of the story.
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The second was a set of emails from Duncan Murdoch, President of the R Foundation and an R Core member, in which he dismissed my "bug report" (note the skeptical scare quotes he put on it) "about some variable name that you find offensive is clearly an example of nothing more than shit-disturbing" and stated that myself, and those who had commented in favour of changing it, were no longer welcome to participate in R's bug-tracker.