@BrodieOnLinux >commonly used descriptor
I should repeat an error because it's popular?
Many such cases: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.en.html#somanyright

https://archive.org/stream/The_Basement_Interviews/Richard_Stallman_Interview_djvu.txt:
13 As Stallman commented to me in 2003 after reading an I had written "To compare anything
to a virus is extremely unfriendly. As regards the GPL, it is also inaccurate. The GPL's domain does
not spread by proximity or contact, only by deliberate inclusion of GPL -covered code

in your program. It spreads like a spider plant, not like a virus. People who hate the GPL have the right
to say that it "contaminates" othei software: that's misleading, but they have freedom of speech.
However, if you don't hate the GPL, would you please not use smear words like "viral" and
"contaminate" to describe it?"


To be honest, it is correct that "Linux is a cancer" (unless you use GNU Linux-libre), as it contains cancer in the form of proprietary software that the main developers refuse to remove.