Shareware History
Comments reminisce about the shareware software distribution model from the 1980s-1990s, including floppy disks, BBSes, magazine CDs, and comparisons to modern software practices like trials and piracy.
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We used to call that shareware.
Let's not forget the history of shareware:https://www.filfre.net/2020/04/the-shareware-scene-part-1-th...
Remember when you could just buy software?
That's a good guess, but tbh this was in the days of modems, bbses, and shareware. Piracy and anti-piracy campaigns weren't really common outside of the software world back then.
It was very common to find that kind of software on magazines' CDs. For example, I installed for the first time WinRar after finding it inside a promo-CD of a magazine (I don't remember the name). I guess the 'share' was because the license was(is) permissive in terms of distribution (internet mirrors, magazines' CDs, promo floppies, etc...) and after a certain amount of time, it was required to pay the license to keep using the software.
It's called Shareware, we had it 15 years ago. We had also demo or trial versions.(Hopefully they get again in fashion)
It used to be called shareware.
When I was young we had a family friend who regularly flew to Hong Kong for work. Whenever we wanted software that was expensive he would kindly pick it up for us there on one of his business trips. He must have known all the right places to look, because he never let us down! I still have a pirated copy of Macromedia Studio MX in a cupboard somewhere. The idea of installing pirate software you bought at an open market in Hong Kong seems absolutely insane in today's world, but 2002 was a ve
this is not at all how shareware worked
Remember when you used to own the software?