schlockware
nounEtymology From schlock (“shoddy or inferior commodity”) + -ware, from Yiddish שלאַק (shlak).
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Derogatory, Slang Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.
- As someone else wrote, "interesting thread you have here." Having worked in a group that has implemented 70,000 seats of M$ schlockware for a single customer, I can testify that having that many seats in your environment, barely draws any attention from the boyz in Redmond.1997, Vincent M. Hanchon, “The best GUI that ever was”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):
- 1998, Larry Wall, quoted in "Open source gurus convene", C-Net E-Magazine, April 8, 1998. You'll do us all a big favor if you disassociate freeware from schlockware.