[throwaway314158]

A dandelion can either be a weed or part of a salad. It's a matter of context.

> You can call it subscription based, you can also call it user lock-in or remote killswitch.

If you stop paying for your gym membership and your access card gets automatically revoked, do you consider that to be some kind of physical instantiation of malware?

[reificator]

If the muscles I built at that gym were incompatible with any other gym, yeah I probably would.

Metaphors don't work as well as people think.