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The full legend/joke says Douglas Crockford (the inventor of Json) receives every year a request from an lawyer at IBM asking "What do you mean with 'evil'?". So every year DC returns a letter to this lawyer saying "I hereby authorize IBM to use my software for evil".

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"IBM, its customers, partners, and minions" (which is the most hilarious part)

see e.g.: http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code

Sorry for the useless comment, but this is golden. Can't upvote you enough.

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