Re: OFFTOPIC: what is vaporware?

[montefin <montefin@finux.com>]

Mike Werner wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:26PM -0000, Pollywog wrote:
> > What exactly is vaporware?
> 
> >From the Jargon File:
> 
> :vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ /n./  Products announced far in
>    advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
>    See also {brochureware}.


This all pales before a fairly new species of software:

ipoware: (eye-pee-oh-wear) n. a kitchensink software compiled solely
from user wish-lists, leaked to Jesse Berst immediately prior to a
company's initial public offering and never intended to see the light of
day thereafter.

montefin