Definition
Especially in the early years of personal computers, a set of computer programs developed by an entrepreneurial advanced amateur or self-employed professional computer programmer in his or her own home; software developed by a small business using the services of such programmers.
In Context
- "So much for kitchen-table software being small potatoes."
- "However, the need to evaluate software before buying is no less important than in the days of the kitchen-table software developer."
- "More and more vendors, from IBM to "kitchen table" software authors, seem to be heading in this direction."