Brain-damaged




1. [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented.

There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better.

Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident.

"Only six monocase characters per file name?

Now *that's* brain-damaged!"

2. [especially in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it is intended to sell.

Synonym crippleware.

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