&quot;Bad&quot; doesn&#x27;t necessarily equate with malice. In Internet discourse it&#x27;s uncommon that &quot;evil&quot; carries very specific meaning: centralized, separate access to signalling from data, specifications closed or under NDA, gatekeepers for services, potentially rent-seeking.<p>In short, everything that the new TCP&#x2F;IP landscape brought and many geeks loved at first sight. It&#x27;s a very silly word, but it&#x27;s useful, because you can&#x27;t start every conversation by debating the value of decentralization. That way you can signal that you are not interested in the never ending conversation about emergency services and quality of service, and instead want to focus on what kind of service innovation a network of peers could bring.