The New Hacker's Dictionary

Copyright 1993 Eric S. Raymond. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying. recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.

“Teletype” is a trademark of AT\&T.
“PostScript” is a trademark of Adobe, Inc.
“Apple” and “Macintosh” are trademarks of 
Apple Computers, Inc.
“Coke” and “Classic Coke” are trademarks 
of the Coca Cola Corp.
DEC, DECtape, DECNET, VAX, PDP, TOPS-10, TOPS-20,
ULTRIX, VMS, and VT-100 are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.
CP/M is a trademark of Digital Research, Inc.
System/360, RS/6000, and IBM PC are trademarks of IBM.
GEnie is a trademark of General Electric.
MS-DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows are trademarks of Microsoft.
“Scrabble” is a trademark of Selchow and Richter, Inc.
SunOS, SPARC, and SPARCstation are trademarks of Sun Microsystems.
D\&D is a trademark of Wizards of The Coast.
Unix is a trademark of The Open Group.
ITS was nobody's trademark and damn proud of it.

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