Shareware, the Glossary
Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost.[1]
Table of Contents
89 relations: Ambrosia Software, Ancient Domains of Mystery, Andrew Fluegelman, Antivirus software, Association of Software Professionals, Beerware, Bob Wallace (computer scientist), Bulletin board system, Careware, CD-ROM, CNET, CNET Download, CNN, Code signing, Commander Keen, Commercial software, Crippleware, Database, Dialog box, Digital photography, Digital watermarking, DigiWorld by IDATE, Don't Copy That Floppy, Doom (1993 video game), Download, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Email, End-user license agreement, Epic Games, Erowid, Escape Velocity (video game), FILE ID.DIZ, Floppy disk, Free software, Freeware, Game demo, Grey House Publishing, Horizon (British TV series), Id Software, Info-Mac, InfoWorld, Internet, Jerry Pournelle, Jim Knopf, JPEGView, Jump 'n Bump, Keygen, Kroz, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Laravel, ... Expand index (39 more) »
- Free goods and services
- Revenue models
- Software licensing
Ambrosia Software
Ambrosia Software was a predominantly Macintosh software and gaming company founded in 1993 and located in Rochester, New York, U.S. Ambrosia Software was best known for its Macintosh remakes of older arcade games, which began with a 1992 version of Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids from 1979.
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Ancient Domains of Mystery
Ancient Domains of Mystery is a roguelike video game designed and developed by Thomas Biskup and released in 1994.
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Andrew Fluegelman
Andrew Cardozo Fluegelman (November 27, 1943 – July 6, 1985) was a publisher, photographer, programmer and attorney best known as a pioneer of what is now known as the shareware business model for software marketing.
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Antivirus software
Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.
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Association of Software Professionals
The Association of Software Professionals (ASP), formerly Association of Shareware Professionals, was a professional association for authors and developers of freeware, commercial, and shareware computer software.
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Beerware
Beerware is a tongue-in-cheek software license with permissive terms, which grants the right to do anything with the source code, assuming the license notice is preserved.
Bob Wallace (computer scientist)
Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane.
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Bulletin board system
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program.
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Careware
Careware (also called charityware, helpware, or goodware) is software licensed in a way that benefits a charity. Shareware and Careware are software licensing.
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.
CNET
CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.
CNET Download
CNET Download (originally Download.com) is an Internet download directory website launched in 1996 as a part of CNET.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Code signing
Code signing is the process of digitally signing executables and scripts to confirm the software author and guarantee that the code has not been altered or corrupted since it was signed.
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Commander Keen
Commander Keen is a series of side-scrolling platform video games developed primarily by id Software.
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Commercial software
Commercial software, or seldom payware, is a computer software that is produced for sale or that serves commercial purposes.
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Crippleware
Crippleware has been defined in realms of both computer software and hardware.
Database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.
Dialog box
The dialog box (also called message box or simply dialog) is a graphical control element in the form of a small window that communicates information to the user and prompts them for a response.
Digital photography
Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.
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Digital watermarking
A digital watermark is a kind of marker covertly embedded in a noise-tolerant signal such as audio, video or image data.
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DigiWorld by IDATE
IDATE DigiWorld (formerly the Institut de l'audiovisuel et des télécommunications en Europe) is one of Europe’s think tanks on the digital economy whose aim is to assist members and clients in the media, internet and telecommunications sectors in their decision-making.
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Don't Copy That Floppy
Don't Copy That Floppy was an anti-copyright infringement campaign run by the Software Publishers Association (SPA) beginning in 1992.
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Doom (1993 video game)
Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.
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Download
In computer networks, download means to receive data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems.
Dr. Dobb's Journal
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
End-user license agreement
An end-user license agreement or EULA is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user.
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Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina.
Erowid
Erowid, also called Erowid Center, is a non-profit educational organization that provides information about psychoactive plants and chemicals.
Escape Velocity (video game)
Escape Velocity is a single-player role-playing space trading and combat video game series first introduced in 1996 by Ambrosia Software for the Macintosh.
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FILE ID.DIZ
FILE_ID.DIZ is a plain-text file containing a brief description of the content of archive to which it belongs.
Floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk.
Free software
Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Shareware and free software are software licensing.
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Freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. Shareware and Freeware are free goods and services and software licensing.
Game demo
A game demo is a trial version of a video game that is limited to a certain time period or a point in progress.
Grey House Publishing
Grey House Publishing is an American publisher of directories and other reference books in business, health, education and other areas.
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Horizon (British TV series)
Horizon is an ongoing and long-running British documentary television series on BBC Two that covers science and philosophy.
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Id Software
id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.
Info-Mac
Info-Mac is an online community, news aggregator and shareware file hosting service covering Apple Inc. products, including the iPhone, iPod and especially the Macintosh.
InfoWorld
InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers.
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Jim Knopf
Jim Knopf, nicknamed Jim Button ("Knopf" meaning "button" in German) (October 20, 1942 – October 1, 2013), was considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware (so named by fellow software veteran Peter Norton).
JPEGView
JPEGView is a discontinued image viewer for Mac OS in the 1990s by Aaron Giles.
Jump 'n Bump
Jump 'n Bump is a 1998 freeware and open-source MS-DOS platform multiplayer video game by Brainchild Design.
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Keygen
A key generator (key-gen) is a computer program that generates a product licensing key, such as a serial number, necessary to activate for use of a software application.
Kroz
Kroz is a series of Roguelike video games created by Scott Miller for IBM PC compatibles.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology (lit), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Laravel
Laravel is a free and open-source PHP-based web framework for building web applications.
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.
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Malware
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software)Tahir, R. (2018).
MAME
MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Mirror site
Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites.
Modem
A modulator-demodulator or most commonly referred to as modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio.
Nelson Ford
Nelson Ford (born 1946) was one of the founders of shareware software distribution, of HAL-PC (the Houston Area League of PC Users, a PC user group which grew to over 10,000 members), of the Association of Shareware Professionals, founder of the Public (software) Library, the largest commercial library of public domain and shareware software, and of the first major order processing service for shareware programmers.
No Starch Press
No Starch Press is an American publishing company, specializing in technical literature often geared towards the geek, hacker, and DIY subcultures.
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Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
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Online service provider
An online service provider (OSP) can, for example, be an Internet service provider, an email provider, a news provider (press), an entertainment provider (music, movies), a search engine, an e-commerce site, an online banking site, a health site, an official government site, social media, a wiki, or a Usenet newsgroup.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Shareware and Open-source software are software licensing.
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Parrot
Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines, are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet.
PC-File
PC-File was a flat file database computer application most often run on DOS.
PC-Talk
PC-Talk is a communications software program.
PC-Write
PC-Write was a computer word processor and was one of the first three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware.
Pop-up ad
Pop-up ads or pop-ups are forms of online advertising on the World Wide Web.
Portable Application Description
PAD or Portable Application Description is a machine-readable document format and specification designed by the Association of Software Professionals and introduced in 1998.
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Postcard
A postcard or post card is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically rectangular, intended for writing and mailing without an envelope.
Product key
A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program.
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms. Shareware and Proprietary software are software licensing.
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Psychedelic experience
A psychedelic experience (known colloquially as a trip) is a temporary altered state of consciousness induced by the consumption of a psychedelic substance (most commonly LSD, mescaline, psilocybin mushrooms, or DMT).
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Roguelike
Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.
Samizdat
Samizdat (lit) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader.
Screencast
A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture or a screen recording, often containing audio narration.
Small business
Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have a small number of employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation.
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Spyware
Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is any software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user by violating their privacy, endangering their device's security, or other means.
Telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.
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Trade show
A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of competitors, and examine recent market trends and opportunities.
VersionTracker
VersionTracker was a website that tracked software releases and versioning.
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Video editing software
Video editing software or a video editor is software used for performing the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a non-linear editing system (NLE).
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Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server.
Web hosting service
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web.
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Website
A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.
Windows XP
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.
WinRAR
WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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3D Realms
3D Realms Entertainment ApS is a video game publisher based in Aalborg, Denmark.
See also
Free goods and services
- Angel Comedy
- Community Banana Stand
- Free Comic Book Day
- Free clinic
- Free content
- Free education
- Free newspapers
- Free public transport
- Free schools in England
- Free universities
- Free-culture movement
- Freeware
- Freiwirtschaft
- Gemach
- Health Brigade
- Milan Puskar Health Right
- Product sample
- Shareware
Revenue models
- Community-supported agriculture
- Continuity sales model
- Donationware
- Fee-for-service
- Free-to-play
- Freemium
- In-game advertising
- License
- Magazine
- Meal kit
- Negative option billing
- Revenue model
- Shareware
- Software as a service
- Subscription box
- Subscription business model
- Tiered Internet service
Software licensing
- Business Source License
- Careware
- Certificate of authenticity
- Client access license
- Code Project Open License
- Copyright infringement of software
- Donationware
- FlexNet Publisher
- Floating licensing
- Free and open-source software
- Free and open-source software licenses
- Free software
- Freely redistributable software
- Freeware
- Greenware (computing)
- Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement
- IBM Type-III Library
- In re Zappos.com, Inc., Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
- Java Research License
- License-free software
- List of free and open-source software packages
- Multi-licensing
- Node-locked licensing
- Open-source software
- Per-seat license
- Permissive software licenses
- Product activation
- Project Harmony (licensing)
- Proprietary firmware
- Proprietary software
- Reprise License Manager
- SLUC
- Server Side Public License
- Shared Source Initiative
- Shareware
- Shelfware
- Shrinkwrap (contract law)
- Site license
- Software license
- Software license manager
- Software license server
- Software protection dongle
- Source-available software
- Sun Community Source License
- T-License
- Time bomb (software)
- Volume licensing
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware
Also known as Cardware, Demoware, Emailware, Free to try, Free-to-try, Freetotry software, Nag screen, Nagware, Postcardware, Shareware Games, Shaware, Software demo, Trial software, Trial version, Trialware, Try before you buy, Try-before-you-buy.
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