Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Eric Conspiracy
     
         A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named
        Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous
        talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986.  This was doubtless influenced
        by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre.
        There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed
        Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits
        can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way.
        Well-known examples include {Eric Allman} (of the "Allman
        style" described under {indent style}), {Erik Fair} (co-author
        of NNTP), {Eric S. Raymond} and about fifteen others.  The
        organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now
        emanates regularly from more than one site.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1998-10-20)