berzerkley

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berzerkley - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Berzerkeley
  Berzerkley
  
     <humour> /b*r-zer'klee/ (From "berserk", via the name of a
     now-deceased record label) A humorous distortion of "Berkeley"
     used especially to refer to the practices or products of the
     BSD Unix hackers.
  
     See software bloat, Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software
     .
  
     Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
     political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been
     reported from as far back as the 1960s.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-06-01)