software bloat
= S =
software laser
software hoarding n.
Pejorative term employed by members and
adherents of the GNU project to describe the act of holding
software proprietary, keeping it under trade secret or license
terms which prohibit free redistribution and modification. Used
primarily in Free Software Foundation propaganda. For a summary
of related issues, see GNU and free software.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.