# Consider Renaming Default Branches

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/consider-renaming-default-branches/15385>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** development\
**Created:** [July 13, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/consider-renaming-default-branches/15385 "2020-07-13T18:25:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![felixvd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/felixvd/32/2279_2.png) [@felixvd](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/felixvd)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/consider-renaming-default-branches/15385/42 "2020-07-17T10:11:20Z")

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> [@felixvd](#):
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> [“robot”] has long become an entirely new word with a different meaning, which offends no descendants of medieval serfs. […] This is because robots rule.

In case this sounded tongue-in-cheek or aggressive: I don’t feel emotional or combative about this at all. I only intended to say that robots are great and I hope we can agree. Let’s make sure “robot” remains a word that inspires kids’ imagination rather than their fear of exclusion, like it surely did for many of us 🙂

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