Definition of "crippleware" []

• 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. (noun)

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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."
• "Firstly, though released under the Open Game License, Monsters of Myth has adopted a "crippleware" approach to Open Game Content."
• "Sounds like crippleware - I will stick with Linux thanks."