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- noun
Software with excess capability that serves no productive end. The term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway.
Etymologies
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fritter + -ware
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vanishedone commented on the word fritterware
Jargon File: 'An excess of capability that serves no productive end.'
January 5, 2009