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Confeature

Mark is looking for a term to describe an “anti-feature“, e.g. as in a printer that only works with cartridges of the same brand.

I’d like to propose the term

confeature

The pun was originally not intended.

2 Comments

  1. Paul Cobbaut wrote:

    you could call it a ‘con’, cause that’s what it is!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick

    Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 23:02 | Permalink
  2. Vomit wrote:

    http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/m/misfeature.html

    http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/c/crippleware.html

    Friday, June 26, 2009 at 17:07 | Permalink

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