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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
This happens all the time. Why get so bent about this one? Nobody is ever going to get everybody to use reasonable terms where technology is concerned by griping about unreasonable/unnecessary usage.
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It does matter. This kind of language usage is not neutral. I'm not sure if pejorative is the best word, but the term sideload is being used to delegitimize the traditional way of installing software, marking it as somehow deviant and non-standard.
It is part of a project to restrict the user's right to tinker with their own hardware and software as they see fit. Pushing it to the fringe while establishing a walled garden of "approved" software as the default.
Of course a lot of people don't care, or fail to see the implications, and you are free to side with them. But there is something at stake, and people who care about the freedom of computing have every right to voice their discontent about this development.