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  • noun Alternative spelling of bit rot.

Etymologies

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From bit + rot.

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Examples

  • The price we pay is great applications will stall even start to "bitrot" without achieving their full potential.

    Planet KDE 2010

  • That means GV Mobile will eventually suffer bitrot like any other piece of unmaintained software on any other platform.

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

  • We'd like your help to get these submissions reviewed and if necessary sent upstream so that they don't bitrot and to encourage people to continue helping us improve open source software.

    Planet Ubuntu lyz 2010

  • Thus they get wide testing and bitrot cannot happen that easily.

    Planet Debian Bernhard R. Link 2010

  • We'd like your help to get these submissions reviewed and if necessary sent upstream so that they don't bitrot and to encourage people to continue helping us improve open source software.

    The Fridge lyz 2010

  • Thus those patches by itself are never directly used, unless the maintainer regularly tests them, they are essentially untested and will see bitrot.

    Planet Debian Bernhard R. Link 2010

  • Enter is recompiled against Krita trunk regularly so it doesn't bitrot.

    Planet KDE 2010

  • If some match modifies parts that a later patch removes, bitrot can still happen.

    Planet Debian Bernhard R. Link 2010

  • Enter is recompiled against Krita trunk regularly so it doesn't bitrot.

    Planet KDE 2010

  • Is this cancer, is this bitrot? is this the all singing, all dancing, mathematically leveling devastation of our youth we've all been promised?

    LA Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

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