cheeseware
nounEtymology From cheese + -ware.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Derogatory, Slang Exceptionally low-quality software.
- Perhaps most important, it has removed us even further from the "gee whiz!" mind-set that dominated our first reactions to computing--a frame of mind that made us so appreciative of the wondrous complexity of those putty-colored boxes that we became vulnerable to the half-baked, the beta, and even the well-marketed cheeseware.2000 September 1, “The New Computers in School”, in Strategic Finance:
- Many of the games they stock now are already in the mini-boxes, new titles not just cheeseware.2002 January 3, John Capriotti, “Re: Walmart: Games in DVD cases??”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):
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- To run the AOL cheeseware on more than one machine at once (why, FFS, I have no idea) you need more "screen names" whatever they may be.2005 August 9, Phil Thompson, “Re: AOL Broadband”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):