1. [common; generalization of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a
theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in
Honeywell {Multics}] adj. 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. [esp. 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 product it is intended to sell. Syn. {crippleware}.
[glossary]
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