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Got a good chuckle. Such is life in IT. Gotta admit I missed the "Extremely Massive Corporation" hint.

It reminds me of Douglas Crockford's talk where he mentioned that a company asked him for an exemption to the "do no evil" clause in the JSON License, and he said he didn't want to name the company as that would embarrass them so he would instead give their initials: IBM.

The comment in question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA

It's not embarrassing; their lawyers are just being cautious, as befits a company with huge customers like theirs. The "do no evil" clause is stupid and utterly ambiguous. If Crockford becomes a fundie, then is any gay-related org in violation of the license?

It's his right to make up ridiculous licenses. Like the sisterware license (you can use the software if you send me a pic of your sister if you have one), people shouldn't take it seriously and avoid code licensed like that. That Crockford doesn't get this is either him trolling or being clueless.

I laughed so hard while reading that.

Care to elaborate?

It's a thinly diguised reference to EMC, the storage company.

I'm guessing EMC

Come on, read Extremely Massive Corporation again, and try to think of an Extremely Massive Corporation which happens to deal in computer storage systems.

Some of us aren't in the environment where we'd know who EMC are :-)

There was a time when they had adverts on seemingly every page of every computing magazine. Although that may have been back when magazines were a thing and Sun were a hardware company.

I'm too young to drink, I figured this reference would work just fine on the GP here... Though the five downvotes I got on my message tell a different story. :-P

Props then, mate. I have been in tech for almost a decade now, and I have literally never heard of EMC until now. Probably has something to do with never working in a datacenter, and never doing anything super cray with storage.

Believe me, you are happier for it!

It's EMC. World's largest supplier of shitty storage hardware.

Yes. The main cause of my beeper going off at 3 AM during the time frame he talks about (early to late 00s) was due to brand new EMC storage hardware continually collapsing under a moderate load, even though the hardware's specs claimed it should have more than adequately handled the load. A load that the three year old, cheaper storage hardware that the EMC unit replaced had handled fine. Like they did, we did not really fix the EMC hardware, we just found ways to work around the problem.

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