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"textContent": "Microsoft manager: We need a proprietary protocol to replicate the functionality of SNMP. Microsoft engineer: Great idea! Everybody hates SNMP. Anything we come up with has to be better. Microsoft manager: Sure, but first we must replicate the many virtues of SNMP… Microsoft engineer: [Getting worried] Which are? Microsoft manager: Inscrutability, intractability, oh, and there […]",
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