schlockware
Noun
Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.
Usage- Derogatory
- Slang
- Uncountable
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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.
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.