Equipment Bond for Software?

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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

what counts as required personalisation? UI customisation, relevant macros, databases and templates? That seems right for things like a spreadsheet programme, but not so much for a minimalistic editor with a same-on-all-computers philosophy such as ed or vi.

I've seen vim and emacs tricked-out with so much chrome and decals that you'd think they were full IDEs. Changing the keystrokes for different commands might work too, but that would make the program harder to use by others. Custom kernel modules for an OS, javascript mungers for browsers...
Of course if you're dealing with ed or vi, you could have custom compilations with little tweaks in the code.