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> I just don’t appreciate the idea that we as software engineers can now sit back and believe we’ve made some kind of positive change, coz we haven’t

Why does the author think that GitHub — and the people who support the naming change — think of this as “real” change and are complacent to leave it at that?

As opposed to, say, the name change initiative being both a small thing and one that is a natural outgrowth of the mindset already committed to making positive change?



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