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• Evil Empire n. [from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM, now Microsoft.
  Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate at any given time....
• IBM /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually
  Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Moveme...
• IBM: /I-B-M/ Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually
  Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning...
• Borg n. In "Star Trek: The Next Generation" the Borg is a species of cyborg that ruthlessly seeks to incorporate all sentient life into itself
  heir slogan is "Resistence is futile. You will be assimilated....
• BWQ /B-W-Q/ n. [IBM: abbreviation, `Buzz Word Quotient'] The percentage of buzzwords in a speech or documents.
  Usually roughly proportional to bogosity. See TLA....
• Halloween Documents n. A pair of Microsoft internal strategy memoranda leaked to ESR in late 1998 that confirmed everybody's paranoia about the current Evil Empire.
  These documents praised the technical excellence of Linux and outlined a counterstrategy of attempting to lock in customers by "de-commoditizing" Internet protocols and services....
• Microsoft: Contract programming house for IBM, and primary sustainer of the clone market.
  IBM pays MS to write fancy software, then MS tweaks it a little, slaps the MS logo on it, and sells it to all the clone folks so they can keep competing with IBM....
• Brief History Of Linux (#29) "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is credited by many (especially ESR himself) as the reason Netscape announced January 22, 1998 the release of the Mozilla source code.
  In addition, Rob Malda of Slashdot has also received praise because he had recently published an editorial ("Give us the damn source code so we can fix Netscape's problems ourselves!...
• IBM is not a necessary evil. IBM is not necessary.