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Evil Empire
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n. [from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist Soviet
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Union] Formerly IBM , now Microsoft. Functionally, the company most hackers
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love to hate at any given time. Hackers like to see themselves as romantic
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rebels against the Evil Empire, and frequently adopt this role to the point
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of ascribing rather more power and malice to the Empire than it actually
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has. See also Borg and search for Evil Empire pages on the Web.
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