I don't really see it as that much of a problem, to tell the truth. Every company with a marketing department worth their salt makes sure to figure out the "cor

I don't really see it as that much of a problem, to tell the truth. Every company with a marketing department worth their salt makes sure to figure out the "correct" terminology to market their product or service in order to present a unified message to the outside world. This is very similar, except the FSF, true to form, is making their terminology (and justification for that terminology) open to the public. The other major difference is that they're not marketing a product or a service, but rather an _idea_, which makes them come off a lot more pretentious than I think they actually are. Okay, scratch that- a _little_ more pretentious than they actually are. ;) But I mean, let's also consider that in the market of ideas, the idea of free software IS, and always has been, under siege by companies who _really don't_ want it to be a Thing. Or at least, companies who have ideas which are only profitable if free software isn't a thing. If you're going to establish an organization whose entire purpose is to keep an idea relevant and un-subverted for a long period of time, it's crucial to come up with practices for "memetic sanitation". I mean, look at U.S. political discourse over the last, say, 30 years. Politicians are experts at this sort of subtle semantic manipulation- repackaging old ideas under new names, giving disparaging/complimentary nicknames to existing ideas they want to reject/promote, or recombining names so that one idea gets mushed up with another in the minds of the public. It's memetic warfare. And so, for the most part, I sympathize with the FSF for doing a hard job. They're playing the game with their cards face-up, and trying to keep their side of the Overton window from getting dragged to a place which they, and I myself, believe will cause the world to become a worse place. tl;dr- if you're not worried about the Green Party's political ideology, you probably don't need to worry about the FSF's political ideology.