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Sometimes it's a feature that's patented, and the only way to avoid that patent is not to implement that feature. For instance, the users of the word processor Xywrite once got a downgrade in the mail, which removed a feature. The feature was that you could define a list of abbreviations. For instance, if you define &ldquo;exp&rdquo; as an abbreviation for &ldquo;experiment&rdquo;, then if you type &ldquo;exp-space&ldquo; or &ldquo;exp-comma&rdquo;, the &ldquo;exp&rdquo; would change automatically to &ldquo;experiment&rdquo;.