"As far as alternative names --- RABIES??"
That was a joke, riffing off the name of RAID, which when you think about it should also be on your list of software terms with negative connotations, along with *anything* to do with computers that uses the words "master" and "slave". But I digress. I do think we could use RABIES when we talk about the proprietary services that are marketed using the buzzphrase "cloud", as in "those mercenary arseholes trying to sell you 'cloud' solutions are really just trying to give you RABIES (Redundant Array of Boxes Independent of Servers)" or "It may seem like GMail are giving you a convenient offsite 'cloud' solution for your organisational email, but it actually puts you email in RABIES", and so on.
