Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable, computing A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of
shareware , often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user make a purchase of the uncrippled program.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Note that these aren't the rootkits that infect Windows PCs -- Sony's Mac crippleware comes from a different vendor called Suncomm.
- Boing Boing 2005
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Firstly, though released under the Open Game License, Monsters of Myth has adopted a "crippleware" approach to Open Game Content.
REVIEW: Monsters of Myth James Maliszewski 2008
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Media Rights Technology, a DRM crippleware vendor, has launched what may be the dumbest DMCA legal threat ever.
Boing Boing 2007
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It's a bummer to consider a future in which broadcasts -- which we can all see and record -- are replaced with geo-locked, streaming crippleware netcasts.
Boing Boing 2007
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There was piracy with shareware, so we removed features and went to crippleware.
March 2009 Alice 2009
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The last time around, a Doom9 poster named Muslix64 broke the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray crippleware by capturing a 16-byte key.
Boing Boing 2007
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Sounds like crippleware - I will stick with Linux thanks.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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There was piracy with shareware, so we removed features and went to crippleware.
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Bigpond Music doesn't work on a Mac, owing to the crippleware it attaches to its files to stop you sharing them with friends.
Britney Hearts Bigpond Ben Barren 2006
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Bigpond Music doesn't work on a Mac, owing to the crippleware it attaches to its files to stop you sharing them with friends.
Archive 2006-11-01 Ben Barren 2006
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The most difficult part to accept is that this is crippleware — by which I mean a deliberate limitation that takes additional work by the authors to impose.
Why I’m leaving Elm - lukeplant.me.uk Luke Plant 2020
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