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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fritterware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="friode.html" title="friode"/><link rel="next" href="frob.html" title="frob"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fritterware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="friode.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="frob.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fritterware"/><dt xmlns="" id="fritterware"><b>fritterware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The
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canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see
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<a href="../M/macdink.html"><i class="glossterm">macdink</i></a>); the term describes anything that eats huge
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amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people
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into using it anyway. See also
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