Apps, programs, games, and other software that are
broken and abandoned because they didn’t turn a turn an immediate profit for the publisher.
The software is therefore “
dead” to whoever created it, as in when
one person tells another, “You’re dead to me.”
Some Person: Hey, what’s up with ONRUSH? There’s so much wrong with it, but there are no updates and Codemasters won’t answer emails about it.
Another Person: It’s deadware, my
friend. The original company disavows all knowledge of ever having made it, despite their
name being
all over it.