schlockware

Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.

Noun

  1. Software that is of shoddy or inferior quality.
    • 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...
    • 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.

Origin

From schlock (“shoddy or inferior commodity”) + -ware, from Yiddish שלאַק (shlak).