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Re: Screenshot Captor: A New Definition for Freeware
de Vegard Krog Petersen 05/18/2006 10:50
on 18.05.2006 21:29 Roger Johansson wrote:
> The term "shareware" is antiquated and should not be used at all, but
> OSS advocates often use it to confuse the issue and to confuse the
> terms freeware and shareware with each other.
>
> Today we call shareware and all other commercial software "payware",
> which is a better and more generally accepted term. "Commercial
> software" is an alternative to "payware", but too long and less
> popular. "Shareware" was a way to distribute payware before internet
> became generally available and simplified distribution.
The term 'shareware' are alive and kicking. I think the 'Association of
Shareware Professionals' would disagree very much that the term
'shareware' is dead... :-)
http://www.asp-shareware.org/
A try to use 'trialware' failed badly. > http://www.trialware.org/
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