[loseyourslinky]

If nothing else if does force one to consider which term is closer to the truth, the one commonly used or the one Stallman invented. Used and users seems very clever, while global heating vs global warming seems arbitrary, while some people may think of heating as more threatening than warming, I'm not sure that's universal.

[fipar]

For what it’s worth, “global heating” is how the phenomenon is described in spanish (“calentamiento global”, while global warming” would be “entibiamiento global”), so to a native spanish speaker like me it doesn’t read odd that he uses it that way in english.

[craigsmansion]

> consider which term is closer to the truth

Also, some of them catch on and are very generally used.

DRM is actually intended to mean "Digital Rights Management"

[throwaway451221]

For what it's worth, Stallman speaks both Spanish and French in which the expression "global warming" does translate as though it were "global heating".