screwage

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

screwage
 /skroo'@j/, n.

   Like {lossage} but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in
   misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

screwage

   /skroo'*j/ Like {lossage} but connotes that the failure is due
   to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or
   a mere bug.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1994-12-01)

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