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Definition of crippleware in US English: cripplewarenounˈkripəlwerˈkripəlwer Computing informal Software distributed with reduced functionality with a view to attracting payment for a fully functional version. Example sentencesExamples - ‘People are not going to buy crippleware’.
- It's crippleware that also has a service connection charge
- Previous attempts to sell Windows crippleware to general consumers failed locally, we understand, because the consumers simply got hold of a pirate copy of Windows and installed it instead.
- It's ridiculous that Apple ships such an integral part of the Apple ‘experience’, as crippleware.
- Which we take as a tacit admission that the various crippleware schemes that the labels have tried, in an attempt to prevent audio CDs being ripped, have failed.
Definition of crippleware in US English: cripplewarenounˈkripəlwer Computing informal Software distributed with reduced functionality with a view to attracting payment for a fully functional version. Example sentencesExamples - It's crippleware that also has a service connection charge
- Previous attempts to sell Windows crippleware to general consumers failed locally, we understand, because the consumers simply got hold of a pirate copy of Windows and installed it instead.
- Which we take as a tacit admission that the various crippleware schemes that the labels have tried, in an attempt to prevent audio CDs being ripped, have failed.
- It's ridiculous that Apple ships such an integral part of the Apple ‘experience’, as crippleware.
- ‘People are not going to buy crippleware’.
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