Even if the rhetoric was out of bounds, the right remedy would be to &quot;improve&quot;, not &quot;leave&quot;.<p>But the use of the term was fair.<p>There is a political and ideological aspect of the fierce-copyleft outlook that cross-fertilizes with Marx-ish thinking. Eben Moglen is often eloquent on these themes. It&#x27;s not necessarily an insult to observe this.<p>And in this kind of casual, vernacular use – uncapitalized, even! – people also understand &#x27;marxist&#x27; to describe language that has been shifted, by certain stylized theories of production and exploitation, from its plainer meaning in other contexts. That&#x27;s a reasonably expressive way to describe the very particular and ideologically-qualified definition of &quot;Free&quot; that the FSF prefers.