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I was at one of Douglas Crockford's presentations on JSON. He mentioned that IBM had expressed concerns about the license, so he sent them an official authorization allowing them to use JSON for evil.

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Relevant historical information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II

Oops, I was in the process of writing a comment about that (with a link) and only saw yours after I sent mine...

Please include the link.

Well since I've written that other comment before seeing this, the link is there, but what the hell, I can repeat it: http://dev.hasenj.org/post/3272592502/ibm-and-its-minions

The JSON Saga by Douglas Crockford - See slides 58-61.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=www.crockford.com%2Fcodeca...

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