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It's where programs go to die. Corel today is what Computer Associates was twenty years ago.

Took the words right out of my stdin. Had I not caught your comment out of the corner of my eye, I was about to post word-for-word the same.

It worked for CA for a while, and then...it didn't? I'd have to go look up what happened to them, because they one day just weren't on my radar anymore.

The renamed themselves to CA Technologies and were bought by Broadcom recently for $18B.

> Took the words right out of my stdin.

Don't you mean stdout?

Given that it is a play on “took the words right out of my mouth”, you’re probably right.

RIP VET Anti-Virus :( CA Anti-Virus was so bad.

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