schlockware
English
Etymology
schlock + ware, from Yiddish שלאַק (shlak), from German Schlacke.
Noun
schlockware (uncountable)
- (computing) Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.
- 1997, Vincent M. Hanchon, “The best GUI that ever was”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy[1] (Usenet):
- 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.
- Wall, Larry. "You'll do us all a big favor if you disassociate freeware from schlockware",'Open source gurus convene', C-Net E-Magazine, April 8, 1998.