brain-damaged: adj. 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.
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