Citations:coasterware


 * 1995 — Herb Greenberg, "Does SoftKey International Have Some Hard Core Problems?", The San Francisco Chronicle, 25 October 1995:
 * Its marketing plan has changed several times, and one analyst who is a SoftKey fan calls its products "coasterware," because if you don't like the actual software you can use the CD-ROMs as drink coasters since they're so cheap.
 * 2001 — "Web speak: terrorware", The Telegraph, 17 May 2001:
 * The opposite of terrorware, coasterware is software so benign that it never gets installed, so the CD that it is installed on finds gainful employment as a drinks coaster.
 * 2003 — "Europa Universalis: Crown of the North", Computer Gaming World, 1 November 2003:
 * From start to finish, it is a poorly conceived, ill-executed, and time-wasting piece of coasterware designed to suck money away from both fans of the much-lauded series and unsuspecting newcomers.
 * 2005 — Logan Decker, "NEC ND-3500A DVD Burner", Maximum PC, March 2005:
 * Sadly, the ND-3500A is burdened by Ulead's MovieFactory 3, which, once again, gave us headaches in the form of inexplicable crashes; what's worse, this coaster-ware cost us money when burns failed and discs were ruined.