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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of `Honeywell Brain
     Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter
     cretinisms in Honeywell {{Multics}}] adj. Obviously wrong; {cretinous};
     {demented}. There is an implication that the person responsible must
     have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling
     something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable,


     and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some
     accident. "Only six monocase characters per file name? Now _that's_
     brain-damaged!" 2. [esp. in the Mac world] May refer to free
     demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way
     so as not to compete with the product it is intended to sell. Syn.
     {crippleware}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  brain-damaged
       
          1. [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a
          theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter
          cretinisms in Honeywell {Multics}] Obviously wrong; cretinous;
          {demented}.  There is an implication that the person
          responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should
          have known better.  Calling something brain-damaged is really
          bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to
          work is due to poor design rather than some accident.  "Only
          six monocase characters per file name?  Now *that's*
          brain-damaged!"
       
          2. [especially in the Mac world] May refer to free
          demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in
          some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it
          is intended to sell.  Synonym {crippleware}.
       
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