> How weird to argue about the connotations of a word like extremist in response to a comment about calling Apple malware. That seems like an ad hominem to me

> How weird to argue about the connotations of a word like extremist in response to a comment about calling Apple malware. That seems like an ad hominem to me. The linked article presents clear arguments for why the FSF consider Apple software to be malware: - backdoors - disabling features when non-Apple hardware is installed or attached I think that those are compelling, and can be termed malware. The extremism isn't the FSF's for calling Apple out: it's Apple's, for … producing, selling and advertising malware. Other stuff, like forbidding users to run software from third parties on their devices or censorship, doesn't fall under the category of malware IMHO, but it is a kind of evil nonetheless. One might claim labelling that stuff as malware is extreme, I suppose.