Trashware is rightware for cash-strapped organizations

Posted by dave on Oct 4, 2004 12:30 AM EDT
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Trashware often means "badly designed or useless software," but in recent years the term has came to indicate something else which could have an important impact on computer users. I use trashware to refer to trashed hardware. We all see perfectly good working computers dumped as soon as the latest and cutest software slows them down. But trashware is not trash, and a number of groups are working to save those "obsolete" computers from the landfill and using free software to make them useful again for fun, profit, or service.

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