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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Evil Empire</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="evil-and-rude.html" title="evil and rude"/><link rel="next" href="exa-.html" title="exa-"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Evil Empire</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="evil-and-rude.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="exa-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Evil-Empire"/><dt xmlns="" id="Evil-Empire"><b>Evil Empire</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist
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Soviet Union] Formerly <a href="../I/IBM.html"><i class="glossterm">IBM</i></a>, now
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<a href="../M/Microsoft.html"><i class="glossterm">Microsoft</i></a>. 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 <a href="../B/Borg.html"><i class="glossterm">Borg</i></a> and search for ‘Evil
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Empire’ pages on the Web.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="evil-and-rude.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="exa-.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">evil and rude<64></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>exa-</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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